Synopsis
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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Cast
- Colin FarrellSyracuse
- Alicja Bachleda-CuruśOndine
- Dervla KirwanMaura
- Alison BarryAnnie
- Marion O'DwyerNurse - Dialysis
- Tony CurranAlex
- Mary O'SheaFish Co Op Worker
- Gemma ReevesDraper's Shop Tracy
- Stephen ReaPriest
- Norma SheahanLibrarian
Recommendations
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Christian Science Monitor
This movie is a one-of-a-kind experience – blarney carried to rhapsodic heights. - 90
Movieline
Ondine suggests that coincidence and magic are often the same thing. - 80
Boxoffice Magazine
Ondine is Injected with a heavy dose of magic and has a lot going for it: an endearing performance from star Colin Farrell, Christopher Doyle's evocative cinematography and a captivating-if thin-story. - 80
NPR
Ondine plumbs the country's most resonant fairy tale and plays impishly along the borders of postcard fantasies of Ireland. - 75
Miami Herald
Mostly, though, Ondine deftly demonstrates just how far we'll reach for any promise of relief from life's hardships, in whatever form -- magic or plain dumb luck -- it arrives. - 75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Pretty magical. - 70
Los Angeles Times
The road is rocky when the story speeds up to take care of business, with the end a mad dash to tie up loose ends. Still, there is enough saving grace on these craggy shores to let the mists and the legends roll in and envelop you for a while. - 60
Empire
Funny, whimsical and as warming as a big bowl of Irish stew.
