Ondine
Release Date: June 4, 2010 (limited)
Studio: Magnolia Pictures
Director: Neil Jordan
Screenwriter: Neil Jordan
Starring: Colin Farrell, Stephen Rea, Alicja Bachleda, Tony Curran, Dervla Kirwan, Tom Archdeacon, Don Wycherley, Emil Hostina, Norma Sheahan
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Ondine’ tells the story of Syracuse (played by Farrell), a down-on-his-luck Irish fisherman dealing with being estranged from his ten-year-old daughter Annie (played by Alison Barry) and adjusting to life as a recovering alcoholic. One day while unsuccessfully trying to catch fish on his boat, Syracuse instead catches a woman in one of his nets. He automatically assumes she is dead, and is shocked when he sees her moving. He insists on bringing her to the hospital, but the woman refuses, as she doesn’t want to be seen in public.
Syracuse takes the woman (played by Polish actress Bachleda), who doesn’t seem to remember anything about why she was in the water and calls herself Ondine, to his mother’s house to spend the night. At first, he believes he dreamt the entire incident, but when he goes back to the house the next day, Ondine is still there. Syracuse agrees not to tell anyone she’s there, but does confide in his priest (played by Stephen Rea in a small role), who is helping him stay sober.
Syracuse also tells Annie about Ondine in an effort to make her feel better, as she’s in a wheelchair and undergoing dialysis. He pretends she is a real ondine, who, in legend, is an immortal water nymph who has a beautiful voice and cannot get a soul unless she marries a mortal man and has a child. Annie believes the legend is true, since Syracuse’s luck as a fisherman drastically improves when Ondine goes on board with him and sings.
Syracuse and Ondine end up falling in love, and their relationship goes well until a car crash interrupts their lives. Someone from her past also shows up, threatening her new found happiness with Syracuse and Annie.
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