Ondine
Ondine: Il Segreto Del Mare. Dir. Neil Jordan. Perf. Colin Farrel, Alison Barry, Alicja Bachleda. Magnolia Pictures, 2009. DVD.
This Irish movie tells a story about a simple fisherman, Syracuse, who accidentally catches a beautiful and mysterious woman in his trawler's nets. The woman seems to be dead, but then she comes alive before Syracuse's eyes. He thinks he may have been seeing things. However, with the help of his ailing, yet irrepressible daughter, Annie, he comes to believe that the fantastical might be possible and that the woman might be a myth come true. Later within the movie she claims the name Ondine. He ends up falling in love with her strange mystic and she ends end secretly falling for him. Throughout the movie she doesn't want anybody to see her because she is hiding from a violent figure from her past. Then, after a terrible car crash and the return of this dark and violent figure from Ondine's past, hope eventually prevails and a new beginning is presented to Syracuse, Ondine and Annie.
This movie reveals all the myths of the Selkie as the daughter tries to incorporate all of the Ondine's mysterious actions and likes to those of what selkies do. The daughter also does research by checking out all available novels about selkies that she even gets her father wondering on whether what his daughter is speaking of is true or not.
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