Ondine

  • Drama
  • Romance
3/5/2010
111
PG-13

The truth is not what you know. It's what you believe.

On the coast of Cork, Syracuse is a divorced fisherman who has stopped drinking. His precocious daughter Annie has failing kidneys. One day, he finds a nearly-drowned young woman in his net; she calls herself Ondine and wants no one to see her. He puts her up in an isolated cottage that was his mother's. Annie discovers Ondine's presence and believes she is a selkie, a seal that turns human while on land. Syracuse is afraid to hope again.

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Revenue:
$1,790,061
Budget:
$12,000,000

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  • Wuchak

    Arty Indie about a fisherman who finds a mysterious woman off the coast of Ireland

    A fisherman from the Cork area of southern Ireland (Colin Farrell) finds an enigmatic female in the water (Alicja Bachleda) whom his handicapped daughter (Alison Barry) believes is a selkie, a being capable of changing from seal to human form by shedding its skin. What is the truth? Dervla Kirwan plays the ex-wife, Tony Curran the stepdad and Stephen Rea the guiding priest.

    Written & directed by Neil Jordan, Ondine (2009) is a lyrical coastal drama/mystery reminiscent of The Seventh Stream (2001) and The Secret of Roan Inish (1994). It mixes the haunting seaside fisherman element of Orca (1977) with the coastal mysteriousness of Half Light (2006...

    August 20, 2020

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