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Ondine

Colin Farrell (Actor), Alicja Bachleda (Actor) Rated:
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4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 2,516 ratings
IMDb6.8/10.0
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Genre Drama/British Empire
Format Dolby, AC-3, Widescreen, Subtitled, NTSC, Color, Closed-captioned, Multiple Formats
Contributor Colin Farrell, Alicja Bachleda
Language English
Runtime 1 hour and 44 minutes
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A leading independent film studio for 20 years, Magnolia Pictures is the theatrical and home entertainment distribution arm of the Wagner/Cuban Companies, boasting a library of over 500 titles.Recent releases include Sierra Pettengill’s kaleidoscopic all-archival documentary RIOTSVILLE, USA; SXSW Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award-winning comedy I LOVE MY DAD, starring Patton Oswalt; Concordia Studio and Wavelength’s sweeping American West documentary BITTERBRUSH; Martin Scorsese executive-produced documentary DREAMING WALLS: INSIDE THE CHELSEA HOTEL; stranger-than-fiction Sundance documentary MY OLD SCHOOL, starring Alan Cumming.

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Ondine is the story of Syracuse, a simple fisherman who catches a beautiful and mysterious woman in his trawler nets. The woman seems to be dead, but then she comes alive before Syracuse's eyes, and he thinks he may be seeing things. However, with the help of his irrepressible daughter, Annie, he comes to believe that the fantastical might be possible and that the woman (Ondine) might be a myth come true. Ondine and Syracuse fall passionately in love, but just as we think the fairytale might go on forever, the real world intercedes.

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Colin Farrell shows his soulful side in Ondine, a lovely Irish drama from director Neil Jordan (The Crying Game, Breakfast on Pluto). Syracuse (Farrell), a down-on-his-luck fisherman called Circus by friends and foes alike due to his formerly boozy ways, pulls up his net one morning to find a beautiful, near-drowned woman in it. She calls herself Ondine (Polish actress Alicja Bachleda) and Syracuse's daughter Annie (charming newcomer Alison Barry) thinks she's a selkie (a seal that's taken human form and can grant wishes). Ondine is happy to feed Annie's fantasies, and Syracuse is pretty convinced himself--but things take a dark turn as Annie's illness and Ondine's past intrude on this sweet fantasy. Ondine has a different feel than typical Hollywood fare; events that in most movies would be hyped and emphasized (such as a plot-turning car crash) here pass with jolting swiftness. Instead, Ondine lingers on the interplay between a sad father and a yearning daughter, between a lonely man and a lost woman. The movie builds a rich and deeply felt web of relationships--when the story takes hold, you'll be all the more gripped as a result. Featuring a delightful comic turn by Stephen Rea (V for Vendetta) as a skeptical priest. --Bret Fetzer

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  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.55 x 5.38 x 7.53 inches; 2.72 ounces
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ MGNO10312DVD
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Dolby, AC-3, Widescreen, Subtitled, NTSC, Color, Closed-captioned, Multiple Formats
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 44 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ September 21, 2010
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Colin Farrell, Alicja Bachleda
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ Spanish
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Magnolia Home Entertainment
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B003LL3FIY
  • Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 2,516 ratings

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4.4 out of 5 stars
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Very Good Movie!!!!
Good movie. I agree, it isn't just a romantic love story, between the two main characters, it's also a love story of a Father's fierce love for his daughter. The ending was very sweet. I'm not able to help but to wonder if Syracuse got custody of his daughter, Annie at the end. I hope he did. I believe her Mother, Maura loved her, but she was a drunk. Very sweet movie! :)
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Michelle Williams
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Story
Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2024
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I usually cannot stand love stories but this is fantastic. It has a great story, charm, heartwarming characters, and a bit of supernatural fun yet grounded in reality.
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Gregory Bennett
5.0 out of 5 stars A Happy Fairy Tale, Maybe
Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2015
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Ondine is a charming and engaging romantic tale that exists in a fuzzy boundary between real-life and imagination.

There don't seem to be much in the way of special effects here. (If there was any digital post-processing done, it was done so well that I couldn't see it.) Very little raucous action. Not much in the way of hyper-dramatic Hollywood kitsch. No loonie hate propaganda. No childish foul language. No gratuitous nudity. It's just a happy story of love developing between a mysteriously magical woman and a fisherman in a setting that's commonplace to the few privilege to live in coastal fishing villages but quite exotic and fascinating to all the rest of us.

The pacing is perfect; it kept me in the story throughout the entire film. All production values top-notch. Music unobtrusive, though in a few spots it confused me enough to nudge me out of the story for a moment.

I don't understand the criticism about the lighting or color processing in the film The image looked great to me throughout the entire film. Perhaps it was just that the user's monitor needs to be adjusted or replaced. Or maybe... well... you know what Bilbo said to Frodo about his little chest of gold.

Bit of a spoiler: Ondine starts out with hints that it will turn out to be a charming fairy tale, but in the end, the film offers an almost-plausible explanation of how the events in the story came to be. I said "almost" plausible because the real-life story still leaves a lot of coincidences, leaving the door open for the advertising's catch phrase: "The truth... is what you believe."

I'm guessing that some of the folks who commenting on the film were disappointed that it didn't turn out to be a pure fairy tale, and were reacting to their expectations rather than to the quite accurate description in the movie blurb.

I have to strongly disagree with the critical review that complains about the science behind the real-life explanation; the reviewer is misinformed. The annals of medicine are filled with incidents where people have survived immersion for extended period of time in hypothermic conditions. Metabolism slows down to the minimum required for survival. In those cases, there was no brain damage unless there is an embolism while depressurizing a deeply submerged victim. While all but quite mesomorphic human bodies will float in water initially, a body weighted down with clothing or becoming water-logged will sink after a short while. Eventually, a dead body will resurface for a time as microbes release gasses that buoy it up (and eventually sink again, but this bit of grue isn't applicable here). In cases of real drowning, there is very little water in the victim's lungs; the trachea will automatically close up to prevent inhalation of water. The body can, however, exhale all the air in the lungs and become less buoyant.

On the other hand, we move back into the fairy tale when we have a naked (for all practical purposes here) human continuously exposed to the temperature of the sea around Ireland. Below 60 degrees F, one would not be comfortably paddling about under water in those conditions; the body would going hypothermic, unable to maintain its core body temperature; and the sea around Ireland rarely gets that warm.
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Lawrence Roberts
4.0 out of 5 stars An Excellent movie with a few technical flaws
Reviewed in the United States on August 20, 2021
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Although the 3 stars and below are only 19%, I am even surprised at that amount of negativity about this quite wonderful movie. I do agree with some of the technical issues, and that is why it is not the 5 stars that the story and the acting deserved. Agree the sound quality was poor and the night scenes were almost totally lost in darkness. I thought they could have gotten much more beauty out of the Irish coastline than they did, and they really did not capture the small-town and cultural character of this Irish fishing village. Watch A Minute of Silence and see how incredibly well they captured the small German fishing village. One common complaint is bogus – that people couldn’t understand the thick Irish brogue – well turn on the subtitles folks! And that it did not end like a Selkie fairy tale – well that is because it wasn’t except in the very vivid imagination of the incredible little girl Annie. They made it very clear at the end that she was a very real person, a drug mule from Romania, which is why she didn’t want to be seen. And, since it was not a Selkie fairy tale, it did not have to end like one. Yes, there were some things a little “fairy tale like”. For example, she drops the drugs out at sea, but somehow it winds up in the cove near the house Syracuse put Ondine in. Also, the kidney match with her mother’s dead boyfriend, and Annie’s seemingly quick recovery from a transplant. But, none of this was any more unbelievable than Hollywood’s blockbuster action movies. It’s a movie after all. I thought the two leads did a marvelous job of creating their characters. Syracuse was a mistake prone loser, and he acted like it most of the time. Ondine was secretive and evasive, but she demonstrated the Selkie qualities of kindness, generosity, and loyalty. She saw more in Syracuse than he could see in himself, and she loved him. Alison Berry’s Annie was simply adorable, and another reason that Ondine could not leave. I thought it was a very creative plot, the lead characters very easily draw out our empathy and hold our attention. Watch it. It’s a great movie. Hope I did not spoil it.
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Lynette B. Hodge
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful movie
Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2024
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Colin Farrell is terrific as is his costar. One of my very favorite movies.
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JupiterandDavid
3.0 out of 5 stars shallow
Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2023
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I was looking for an interesting movie with cultural richness and emotional depth. Somehow they took potentially deep topics; legend, fantasy, love, addiction, death, starting over, immigration, handicap, health challenges, poverty, divorce and crime and made them shallow. I found myself not very engaged and could not really identify with any of the characters. The acting was so so and the script was silly at best. To be fair, I was looking for something like "The Secret of Roan Inish" ;not another crime mystery.
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Dutch Mr.V
5.0 out of 5 stars Fairy Tail
Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2024
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What a great real life fairy tail. I don’t think you can watch this without feeling joy and heartbreak. The ending is the best part. 😎
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Delza
5.0 out of 5 stars une histoire qui fait croire aux légendes
Reviewed in France on March 18, 2023
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J'ai beaucoup aimé cette histoire mi- légende des Selkies mi- réalité! Un beau film, on se laisse porter ...c'est agréable .
C'est très intéressant d'essayer de prendre connaissance de ces légendes et peut-être mieux découvrir l'âme des Irlandais et des gens de la mer.
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augusto
5.0 out of 5 stars Ok
Reviewed in Italy on February 5, 2021
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Alkalid Nualdir
4.0 out of 5 stars poco conocida
Reviewed in Spain on October 11, 2017
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Después de ver Byzantium, sentí curiosidad por la obra de este director y busqué mas películas. Es una historia fantástica
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Trim Vis 44
5.0 out of 5 stars Colin Farrell is at his best playing rumpled
Reviewed in Canada on January 7, 2015
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Not typical Neil Jordan in the sense of "Crying Game" or "In Dreams" but very enjoyable. Colin Farrell is at his best playing rumpled, slightly shifty, but loveable characters and he's great in this whimsical folksy tale which as always with Jordan isn't quite what it seems.
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Ann Cameron
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in Canada on February 21, 2018
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I love Colin Farrell and is a delightful offbeat movie with Colin at his best. Super
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