I picked up this weeks Prague Post this morning, and over my morning coffee, read a movie review of this Movie: Ondine. Since I had some free time this afternoon, I went to the Slovánské Dům theatre, hoping the review matched the movie. I was not disappointed. It was THE quintessential "Scott" film... for those who know me.
ONDINE is a lyrical modern fairy tale that tells the story of Syracuse (Colin Farrell), an Irish fisherman whose life is transformed when he catches a beautiful and mysterious woman (Alicja Bachleda) in his nets. She says her name is Ondine, which means "she came from the sea". His daughter Annie (Alison Barry) comes to believe that the woman is a Selkie, a magical seal/woman creature, while Syracuse falls helplessly in love... get the "picture"?
The review went on the say: "Like a siren song for the romantically inclined,..Ondine is an elegiac and haunting meditation on the transient nature of love and luck. Lyrical and metaphorical, it mixes traditionally rendered, age-old myths into the fabric of everyday life in a small Irish village". It goes on to say, that the child star "steals each scene as Syracuse's daughter who is a precocious child, beset as she is by Kidney failure..." it was a moving film.
It was made in 2009 and Finally made it to Prague. ...and I recommend it.(What did you expect ;-) so signing off as the Prague Movie critic. ~ waiting to be transformed.
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