Alex Billington at First Showing shares his first look at stills from Neil Jordan’s Ondine.
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. His daughter Annie (Alison Barry) comes to believe that the woman is a magical creature, while Syracuse falls helplessly in love. However, like all fairy tales, enchantment and darkness go hand in hand.
Four more shots after the cut.
21 Responses for "Ondine stills"
Neil Jordan…Christopher Doyle… Colin Farrell… Stephen Rea…
I´m in!!!!!
holy crap, that’s one beautiful lady!!!
I’ve been hearing about this forever, so long I thought it had already been released!
(for some reason I kept thinking the same thing about “Young Victoria”… weird, huh?)
That’s some marvelous copy.
“Secret of Roan Inish” redux?
I dont know why (havent followed it much so far) but this looks fantastic.
Ouch! Didn’t know Stephen Rea was part of it. Rea and Jordan nine previous films partnership make one the coolest colaborations among an actor and a director in contemporary cinema.
She looks rather like Keira Knightley, imo. Not a bad thing at all!
Mmm om nom nom Christopher Doyle om nom nom. Now THERE’S a cinematographer!
This is the first I’ve heard about this. It’s looks great! My first thought was also Secret Of Roan Inish but if this movie is anywhere near as awesome as Roan Inish was I am so in!
My type of movie!
Oh my god when I was reading it I thought of The Secret of Roan Inish straight away too
Jordan hasn’t been great this decade, so hopefully he makes a turnaround here – Farrell has an heretofore-untapped talent for dramatic roles and it looks like he might be able to follow up his excellent turn in “In Bruges” with something just as memorable. And I’m a sucker for these kind of films.
I’m jealous of that necklace.
I thought Colin would turn out to be a real movie star like they used to make after seeing him in A Home at the End of the World. I thought he was pretty good in The New World too.
Ondine is quite a change from the Brave One, isn’t it? He was the wrong director for that imo, but this seems more up his alley. Looking forward to it.
This sounds a little like the novel Jordan wrote – I forget what it was called.
I would like to see Jordan come back from BRAVE ONE as well (though I don’t think he’s had a totally bad decade – I loved THE GOOD THIEF). I didn’t hate it as much as I thought I would – the filmmaking was interesting, and Terrence Howard was terrific – but the ending left a really bad taste.
New World: Centuries later
smh
Yep, seank, the two lead perfs in that movie were strong and moving, but it all falls apart starting around the last act. The Sara Maclachlan song at the end was a terrible choice.
Farrell is great, given the right role… Tigerland, Phone Booth, In Bruges…
Hmmm gorgeous to look at
Hope it delivers.
T.
Colin Farrell could be Sancho Panza (and replaced Johhny Depp) in “The Man Who Killed Don Quijote). Rossy de Palma could join the cast.
wow that girl looks so much like keira knightley i almost thought it was a post about london blvd…it looks like farrell is really trying to build up some credability as a serious actor
My only problem is Farrell has long hair, and there seems to be a quality trend: Short hair (TIGERLAND, IN BRUGES) vs. long hair (ALEXANDER, MIAMI VICE). Though there’s always shaved head in DAREDEVIL, a shit movie that he stole. So maybe there are no rules.
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