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Mood:
- GloomySentimentalTouching
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Plot:
- Child IllnessHopesFamily RelationsMysterious CharacterRedemptionFall in LoveParents and ChildrenSmall Town Life more...
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Genres:
- Drama
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Place:
- IrelandSmall Town
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Praise:
- Award Winner
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealisticSlow
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Ondine, 2009
English
Ireland, USA
Profile of Ondine
Ondine can be described as gloomy, sentimental, and touching. The plot revolves around childhood illness, hopes, and family relations. The main genre is drama. In approach, Ondine is serious and realistic. The storytelling is slow paced. It is set, at least in part, in a small town. Ondine is located in Ireland. The movie has received attention for being an award winner. Note that it involves drugs/alcohol, sexual content, and profanity.
Summary of Ondine
One day a simple fisherman, trawling off the Irish coast where he makes his living, catches a beautiful and mysterious woman in his nets. She appears to be dead but, miraculously, comes back to life before his eyes. So begins Neil Jordan's deeply enchanting fairy tale of a movie. Ondine effortlessly mixes myth and fantasy with the life of a fishing community on the jagged seascapes of the wild southwest Irish coast.The fisherman, Syracuse, is a devilish, irresponsible loner, separated from his former wife and distanced from Annie, his wheelchair-bound daughter. But everyone's drab and ordinary life is about to change with the arrival of the ethereal Ondine, the woman from the sea, who may or may not be real. Annie has a powerful belief in folklore, and the world-weary Syracuse soon finds himself believing that the stranger may well be a myth come true, a woman sent to change his life and a powerful force for love and hope. As Syracuse falls under Ondine's captivating spell, he discovers that his relationship with his daughter undergoes the same kind of magical transformation. All the trials and tribulations of life seem to be replaced by a marvellous halo of possibilities. Reality will make an appearance again, but not before Jordan spins his own dreamlike web, using both character and landscape to transport us to another, heightened plane of believability.The film is a welcome homecoming for Jordan, and his feel for the rhythms of Irish life is immediately visible. Ondine works as a beautifully wrought fable, a romantic re-imagining of the dreary lives of working people, lifted out of their daily routines by an exquisite, unfathomable stranger who suddenly appears in their midst. Christopher Doyle's atmospheric cinematography is a further accent to this wonderful Irish tale, the kind told on a rainy evening in a pub with a Guinness in hand.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | Ireland, USA |
| Release date: | 12 March 2010 |
| Runtime: | 111 min |
Cast and Crew
as Syraceuse
as Alex
as Ondine
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- 10.January.2011
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- by: Netflowers
- Netflowers rated this movie
0/10
- 03.January.2011
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- by: Jane
- Jane rated this movie
10/10Must See
