The ending of ondine

◎ Ondine

◎ Year 29

◎ Ireland/America

◎ Fantasy/Plot/Love

◎ Language English

◎ Chinese and English characters in the screen

◎IMDB score of 7.. 841 votes

file format DVD-rmvb

video size 576x32

file size 1cd

film length 98mins

starring Neil Jordan of neil jordan

starring Stephen Rea of Stephen Rea ... Priest

Deura Kiel. Van der Vla Kirwan ... Maura

Don Wycherley Don Wycherley ... kettle

Emil Hostina ... Vladic

norma sheahan Norma Sheahan ... Librarian

Alison Barry Alison Barry ... Annie

colin farrell Colin Farrell ... Syracuse

Erica Bachleda-Kurrus Alicja Bachleda-Curus ... Ondine

Tony Curran Tony Cur. ran ....Alex

Marion O'Dwyer ....Nurse - Dialysis

Mary O'Shea ....Fish Co Op Worker

Gemma Reeves ....Draper's Shop Tracy

Conor Power ....Eion

Olwyn Hanley ....Katie

Mark Doherty ....Fishery Board Man II

Peter Gowen ....Dr. Hannon

H elen Norton ....Nurse

Gertrude Montaobaory ....Ban Garda

Reese O'Shea ....Paudie

Sharon Shannon ....Funeral Musician

Dashi El Jordan ... kid on bike

◎ Brief introduction

neil jordan, who directed "Interview with Vampires at Night", returned to Ireland, taking the European theme about mermaids and water elves as a breakthrough, returning to the magical theme and injecting romantic colors.

Ondine is a water spirit in European fairy tales. She exchanged eternal life for love with human beings and got the human soul. Colin Farrell plays an Irish fisherman in the film. While fishing, he finds Odin, a fairy, and then falls in love with her. Odin's arrival also changes the lives of the townspeople.

Comment in a word

If you are in a tolerant mood, then ondine will be a peaceful and ambiguous romantic story, slowly infiltrating into your surroundings.

-Sunday Independence magazine

This movie has an absurd but intoxicating plot, and it is also printed with beautiful Irish seascapes. Watching ondine is really a pleasant way to kill time in the afternoon.

-Time magazine

is like a pot of heated Erzhilan stew, which is interesting and eccentric.

-Empire magazine

A lovely and lyrical work from the myth of "the woman in the sea" with a long history in Yu Yuan, with excellent performance and beautiful photography showing the scenery of the Irish coast. However, in the final artistic charm, there is a lack.

-Complete Movie magazine

When the "wet" mystery of the story was finally fished out of the darkness, it was not so impressive that you wanted to throw it back into the water!

-behind-the-scenes production of The Independent

Irish director with distinctive style

As an Irish director, neil jordan has been paying attention to Ireland and Northern Ireland for a long time, but all his films show human nature from the perspective of personal destiny in the historical background. At the same time, he is a director with a distinctive style. His works are based on real life, but they often lead to stories with surrealism from a unique perspective, which collide with each other and lead to profound thinking. As the director said, "In my movies, it is often a battle between reality and reality!" .

For example, in the beautiful film The Crying Game (1992), which made him famous in the world cinema, he expressed the struggle and choice of human nature in the war from a different angle as an Irish soldier who was tired of killing and communicated with a transvestite lover in Britain. The film was a great success. In that year, it was nominated for six Oscars, including best director, best leading actor and best supporting actor, and finally won the best original screenplay award. This film is also the highest-achieving film in neil jordan so far. After conquering the critics, he began to try to enter the mainstream of Hollywood, bringing Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and other first-line stars to be known to the public as a classic vampire movie "Interview with Vampires at Night" (1994).

Adult Fairy Tales of Water Elves

After directing the disappointing Brave Man in 27, neil jordan returned to Ireland this time, taking the European theme of mermaids and water elves as a breakthrough and returning to the magical theme. In fact, he is no stranger to magical themes. Before Visiting Vampires at Night, as early as 1984, he adapted The Wolf Clan with the theme of werewolf story based on angela carter's short stories Wolves and Alice the Werewolf. The new film ondine is based on the Taobao legend of Odin in Europe. Odin is an elf in the water. It is said that she can get her soul by marrying a man and having children for him. In the movie, a fisherman found the mysterious woman Odin in his fishing net, and his paralyzed daughter thought that this woman was the legendary mermaid. The fisherman and Odin fell in love quickly, but the arrival of the latter caused a series of storms in this traditional town.

According to neil jordan, to some extent, this film originated from the American writers' strike in 28. "I went back to Ireland and wrote something personal. I had a picture in my mind of a fisherman dragging a girl out of the water with a fishing net, and I didn't know if it would be a horror movie ―― if it ended with her eating his child and drinking his blood. I didn't know what to do next, so I drafted some scenes and realized that this should be a fairy tale. Then, I began to read a lot of fairy tales about marine life. "

For this movie, in neil jordan's words, it is a fairy tale about adults, who choose the childhood fantasy they want to believe. This is a fairy tale about fairies in the water, but it is not just a fairy tale. Like other films, it is based on reality. On the beautiful Irish seaside, a group of people live a hard and poor life. In fact, they need fairies to change their lives rather than come to them. In the depressed environment, only one person seems to be getting rid of such an environment, that is, the fisherman in the film. He meets Odin and falls in love with her, showing us a story about love, hope and belief.

The star cast joined the film.

In terms of actors, neil jordan asked Irish countryman colin farrell to play the role of fisherman in the film, which was the first cooperation between them. Odin, a very important role in the film, was given to the Mexican-born Polish actress Erica Bachleda-Kurrus. Erica, 26, is a newcomer in Hollywood. She once played a Mexican girl who died tragically in an illegal trade in the film Trade between the United States and Mexico (27), which left a deep impression. Compared with the two main characters, Stephen Rea, who plays a supporting role, is an old friend of neil jordan. This is their eighth cooperation.

The film was shot by the famous photographer Du Kefeng. When talking about Du Kefeng, neil jordan said, "Du Kefeng, he makes me feel incredible. In his photography, you can find a mixture of romance and roughness. On the one hand, you can feel the mysterious beauty brought by the mountains and rivers here. On the other hand, you can feel the rough reality of local towns and the dark and depressing environment created by people themselves. Du Kefeng discovered the photographic language that expresses both of them. He is a very, very good photographer. " As for the soundtrack production of this film, Kjartan Sveinsson, the keyboard player of the famous Icelandic back-rocking band Siegel Roth, was invited. Siegel Roth's music has always been known for its ethereal and mysterious nature, which coincides with the romantic story based on myths in this film and is worth looking forward to.

tidbits

According to neil jordan, this film is the product of his reverie when he returned to his hometown during the writers' strike in Hollywood.

colin farrell, the leading actor of this film, and Erica Bahreda-Kurus, the leading actress, fell in love with each other because of this film, and they have a son, and they named the child Henry Tadeusz Farrell.

Erica Bachleda-Kurus is Polish, but she was born in tampico, Mexico. On her 25th birthday in 28, she won the title of honorary citizen of tampico.

Stephen Rea, who plays a priest in the film, has cooperated with director neil jordan most frequently in the cast. Before that, he has collaborated with the director in seven films, such as Crying Game, Night Interview with Vampires, Michael collins and Breakfast on Pluto.