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The performances in this are just great. Combined with an equally good story, this makes for a very entertaining movie. Entertaining in the sense a story you might like to hear as a bedtime story. There are no big effects here and even great emotional scenes don't feel forced or heightened in any way.

While the main actress is beautiful, she is also good acting wise. And it is necessary, because her character (also the name of the movie) really carries this. Along with Colin F. of course, who has to take a few steps back and be really "quiet" ... kinda like the exact opposite of what you would imagine him to be in real life ... which also shows the strength in his performance!

An unsuccessful fisherman named Syracuse is shocked when he pulls up a strange women in his fishing nets. She can't explain who she is or how she got in the water, but she doesn't want anyone besides Syracuse to see her. Syracuse must attempt to unravel the mystery or who or what she really is while trying to patch up his relationship with his ex-wife and take care of his sickly daughter.

Ondine possesses a style all it's own. It successfully blurs the line between fantasy and reality until the audience doesn't really know where one ends and the other begins. But, at it's heart Ondine is really about relationships and finding hope in desperate situations.

You truly care about all the characters and this is achieved by excellent performances from all the leads. Especially Alison Barry who is an amazing child actress and absolutely inspired as Annie, Syracuse's ailing daughter. Annie is convinced that Ondine is a Selke and revels in living in a fantasy that is much easier than her own life. The chemistry between Colin Farrell and Alicja Bachleda is another high point.

Ondine is not without it's flaws though. At points the drama can seem forced and it was starting to lose me towards the end. The ending is a little crazy as well, but that is fairly easy to forgive when considering all that works in the movie.

Ondine is an extremely heartfelt story and deserves a lot of praise for originality alone. I believe it is certainly worth watching at least once and hopefully it will get the attention it deserves.

I am a fan of Neil Jordan but I was extremely disappointed with Breakfast on Pluto, so I went to this movie with low expectations. Colin Farrell (once you get used to him with the sing songy Cork accent!)was super as was Alicia Bachleda. Along with the Butcher Boy and The Miracle the real star of the movie is a young actor (Alison Barry).

This is a fairytale interspersed with reality, it is a movie. I'm tired of reading reviewers criticising the fantasy elements conflicting with 'real life'. Suspend disbelief for God's sake , you are watching a piece of fiction, not a documentary.

This was a perfect movie for a lazy afternoon, it would even be suitable for kids from ages 8 upwards.Did not find it in the slightest bit boring or slow. To compare it with Moondance is completely unfair as that movie had both poor directing and a brutal script(in conjunction with some very dodgy acting).

Give Ondine a chance, you might find that you will be pleasantly surprised.

old tale. and its new pieces. a film about heart of solitude, force of myth, beauty of faith. and love as arena of freedom. mystery, legend, the image of a child about a woman, a fisherman with many problems and a kind of spell. a not special movie with science to give crumbs of delicate emotions and to make a legend more profound. not very right in details but exercise of good art to create emotion. and nice occasion to understand the limits of reality as fruit of dream. a interesting surprise - role of Colin Farell. a smart way to sustain drawing of character - dialogs with the priest and circle of past. delicate solution to create a gray world with fragile borders. inspired music and images. a good movie. not extraordinary. just beautiful. like each slice of life.

Everything about Neil Jordan's Ondine, a middling good and very Irish expression of his unique vision, is soft around the edges, like the lilting speech of County Cork, where the action takes place, by the sea, whose gentle waters (hithering and thithering waters of, Joyce called the Liffey) deliver a girl into a fisherman's net. Is she a real girl ("one of those asylum seekers," her finder asks) or a selkie or an ondine, a sea nymph, a mermaid temporarily gone human? The distinctions have gone blurry, and the movie swings between fairy tale and a harsh account of modern realities. Ondine succeeds or fails by virtue of its gentleness and deliberately blurred distinctions. It's a nice little story but a fragile one, so understated and gentle it could pass unnoticed if you don't pay good attention; and the accents are so thick we could have very much benefited by having subtitles. Once again it shows this director remains his own man, true to his literary roots and his Irish ones when he wants to be.

The fisherman is Syracuse (Colin Farrell), but his name has been rounded off to "Circus," and Farrell has softened back his voice to an (often incomprehensible) Irish murmur. He says they call him "Circus" because as a drunk he was such a clown. He's been sober for two years, ten months, and 21 days and counting, but he's treading water, in need of something. Circus has a daughter, Annie, whom he cares for, but she lives with her mother, and he lives by himself, and he's too warm and friendly a fellow for that to be right for him. He lives on the edge, a bit uneasily, between sobriety and drunkenness, solitude and a marital state, happiness and bitter disappointment. When he pulls the mysterious female out of the water, she offers hope of something new.

Neil Jordan has always had a gift for transformation and blurred edges. In his very first film, a mild-mannered musician, played by Stephen Rea, changes into a revenge killer, his trumpet morphed into a gun. A Jordan regular forever after and virtually his muse, Rea has been described by Todd McCarthy in terms of ambiguity: "handsome-homely, decisive-passive, gentle-violent." It's true you don't know quite how to take Stephen Rea half the time, and that's the beauty of him. Jordan's most celebrated film, The Crying Game, veers with pleasing and surprising complexity between opposites of sex and politics, keynoted by the fascinatingly androgynous Jaye Davidson. The Irish novelist-turned-auteur filmmaker has dealt in the past with mythical transforming creatures in Interview with the Vampire and In the Company of Wolves.

Ondine is in a lower key, however. The shapely and mysterious young woman Circus catches in his net (Alicja Bachleda, a Polish actress born in Mexico) can't be pinned down. Not, at least, till till the action finale, which brings things to a conclusion with a series of happy accidents. As Circus may have hoped, she becomes a source of luck. Ondine is what she says her name is. When she goes out fishing with Circus, her singing seems to fill his pots with lobsters and his net with salmon. He desires her. He likes dressing her up in nice clothes. When the two of them make wishes, Ondine wishes for Annie to get well. Circus wishes for Ondine to stay. She doesn't want to be seen and he hides her in an isolated cottage once occupied by his late lamented mother.

The plucky, smart, and over-imaginative young Annie (Alison Barry) goes to the library and studies up on selkies. She rolls around in a wheelchair that gets stuck in the water at one point. While she's the most threatened -- she could die at virtually any moment -- Annie is, paradoxically, the strongest person around. The wheelchair she has to travel in hides that her feet are planted firmly on the ground. She's also like a sea-nymph herself, surviving life on earth uncertainly, only by constant dialysis sessions. Of course Stephen Rea is here, and this time he's a Catholic priest. Circus goes to him for confession, but not quite confession: he seems to confuse his sessions with the good Father with AA meetings. These are moments of contemplation, as are, perhaps, Circus' attempts to tell Annie a fairy tale based on what he's actually experienced, but there's a feeling that events are moving forward rapidly and strangely. "Curiouser and curiouser," Anne repeats, echoing Lewis Carroll. But really things are in a slow drift, till the end comes and they're rushed to a conclusion.

That final revelation when bad men turn up may not be so surprising, but what remains of Ondine is its delicacy and sweetness. Ondine herself does seem for a while a creature of the sea, in a very down-to-water fashion. She likes to get wet in the sea. She sets the fashion of wearing thin, wet dresses and she looks great in them, though there's a voyeuristic note in those scenes, as if she's just being posed to titillate the audience. The film seems, not for the first time in Neil Jordan's work, to be more interested in atmosphere than anything else; there's plenty of that, but not much depth in the characters or the action. Jordan pays good attention to his visuals and brings in the best d.p.'s to help him. That first film was shot by Chris Menges and this one by Christopher Doyle. The appropriately feathery camera-work never strikes a note of Irish Tourist Office cliché. Too bad the images, though soft and blurry, are clearer than the dialogue.

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According to the dictionary an 'ondine is a water nymph or water spirit, the elemental of water. They are usually found in forest pools and waterfalls. They have beautiful voices, which are sometimes heard over the sound of water. According to some legends, ondines cannot get a soul unless they marry a man and bear him a child. This aspect has led them to be a popular motif in romantic and tragic literature.' Another bit of background information that aids the viewer of this little rarity of a film, ONDINE, is the bit of folklore often referred to in the film - that Ondine is a 'selkie': 'In Irish folklore, there are many stories about creatures who can transform themselves from seals to humans. These beings are called selkies. The seals would come up onto rocks or beaches and take off their skins, revealing the humans underneath. There is no agreement among the stories of how often they could make this transformation. Some say it was once a year on Midsummer's Eve, while others say it could be every ninth night. Once ashore, the selkies were said to dance and sing in the moonlight. One of the most common themes found in selkie folklore is romantic tragedy. Selkie women were supposed to be so beautiful that no man could resist them. They were said to have perfect proportions and dark hair. They also made excellent wives. For this reason, one of the most common selkie stories is that of a man stealing a selkie woman's sealskin. Without her skin, she cannot return to the sea, and so she marries the human man and has children with him. She is a good wife and mother, but because her true home is in the sea, she always longs for it. In the stories, she ends up finding her sealskin that her husband has hidden, or one of her children unwittingly finds it and brings it to her. According to legend, once a selkie find her skin again, neither chains of steel nor chains of love can keep her from the sea. She returns to the ocean, usually leaving her children behind with their grief-stricken father'.

All of this information may seem redundant, but when a beautiful little film such as ONDINE, written and directed by the always excellent Neil Jordan, knowing the background helps support the manner in which the story is told and revealed. Syracuse (Colin Farrell) is a recovering alcoholic fisherman whose alcoholic wife has custody of his beloved daughter Annie (Allison Barry) who because of renal failure must be dialyzed frequently and spend her days in a motorized wheelchair while she awaits a kidney transplant. Syracuse focuses his life on Annie - until one day while fishing he brings up a beautiful girl in his nets, a frightened girl named Ondine (Alicja Bachleda, a brilliant Polish actress and singer from Mexico) who fears being seen by anyone. Syracuse protects and clothes her and secludes her in his dead mothers shack by the sea - until Annie discovers her, having researched everything she could fine at the library about the selkies. Annie decides Ondine is selkie who must bury her seal coat in the earth and thus gain seven years on land without having return to the sea. With this mixture of myth and reality the story moves along at a gentle pace: Syracuse frequents the priest (Stephen Rea) confessional (his only available semblance of an AA stabilizer in his small village), Annie and Ondine bond, Syracuse and Ondine fall in love (despite the myth's warning that every selkie has a husband), and the townsfolk begin to accept the strange happiness that has returned to Syracuse's heart. The plot then twists and the realities of the myth become known and the story progresses from a recreation of a mythical romance to the difficulties of a true romance.

The chemistry between Farrell and Bachleda and Farrell and Barry is extraordinary and palpable: they make the film sing. The haunting musical score is by Kjartan Sveinsson and the moody cinematography is by Christopher Doyle. Neil Jordan pulls all of these elements together into a film that will linger in memory - like the song Ondine sings. There have been novels, operas, ballets, and plays written based on this myth, but few capture its mystery the way this film does. It is a quiet little gem of art.

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I respond well to movies with honesty and heart, and Ondine has plenty of both. Set in an Irish fishing town, you can also feel the love and respect of the filmmaker for the rugged and beautiful setting. The performances are excellent, with especially good work by the the young Alison Barry playing the part of Colin Farrell's daughter, who suffers from kidney failure and must undergo regular dialysis (reminded me of the early work of Dakota Fanning).

The film's "feel" is a bit darker than I expected, making the injections of wry Irish humor in Colin's confessions to the priest (played by Stephen Rea) even more enjoyable. The script keeps you wondering until very near the end, "Is this really a modern fairy tale, or is there a more earthly explanation?" The soundtrack is appropriately plaintive, with songs by Lisa Hannigan and others. I definitely plan to buy the soundtrack. Because this film is low-key and thoughtful, it probably will not receive the attention from audiences it deserves. But serious moviegoers should take the time to watch, enjoy and appreciate.

An Irish fisherman played by Colin Farrell hauls up an interesting prize in his trawler net. It is a beautiful creature named Ondine (Alicja Bachleda) Ondine means from the sea. She seems a little awkward about the world. So when the fisherman tells his daughter (Alison Barry) the tale she knows he found a selkie, a mythical sea creature with powers and abilities. The fisherman is starting to see things through his daughter's eyes and so are we. Will the selkie stay for the allotted seven years or be carried away by her sea husband? Let's hope everything turns out all right as in a fairytale.

The highlight of the film for me is the encounters of the fisherman Syracuse and the local priest played by Stephen Rea.

Basically "The Secret of Roan Inish" darkened with Irish realism including with alcoholism, kidney failure and, in the case of Colin Farrell, really bad hair and an impenetrable accent. Critics made a big deal about the thickness of the Irish brogues in this gritty fairy tale and for good reason - most American audiences and I suspect most others outside Ireland itself will catch every third word. Ultimately, Neil Jordan movies are more about place, tone and the unexpected emotional pops that catch you off-guard and these are in abundance here. The frank depictions of alcoholics recovering and otherwise tell a story that make their words largely superfluous and the wide shots of Ireland's darkly beautiful coast need no verbal accompaniment. Alison Barry, as the daughter of the "recovering" alcoholic Syracuse played by Farrell, and a definitely not recovering mother is more understandable. While she genuinely does a nice job in the part, her character Annie is a wee bit too self-sufficient, mature and together given all that is against her. A little more emotional vulnerability would have made the character more believable. The plot itself is solidly credible and it is worth staying around to see how it turns out. In short, if you can find a version with English subtitles this is worth the view, if not try "The Secret of Roan Inish" instead.

This was a beautiful blend of the myth of the Selkie, the beauty of coastal Ireland, and life lived with loss and love. No one's problems in a small Irish village are private. Colin Farrell is Syracuse, or Circus, who is working on his life through his many difficulties under the magnifying glass of small village life. His closest confidante is his priest(Stephen Rea), whom he goes to for support, not absolution. Rea plays his role with depth, and Irish humor. When he finds Ondine, Syracuse's life gets luckier. Colin Farrell plays the role with great sensitivity to empathy, and suffering, while looking for hope and joy through the beauty and myth of his catch, Ondine. Alison Barry as the little girl Annie portrays the child who looks to stories and myth to help her through her suffering, and who clings to her own happy ending no matter what. This is a beautiful story of love, tears, and suffering. Don't miss this one. Your soul will be singing the Selkie song too.

Filmed in SW Ireland, 'Ondine' tells the story of a lonely fisherman, Syracuse, who is struggling with alcoholism and the aftermath of divorce. One fine day he hauls in his nets, and finds a beautiful, half-drowned young woman amongst the flapping fish. After being revived, Ondine claims to be fearful of strangers, so he offers her the shelter of his dead mother's empty cottage in a secluded inlet. Syracuse's catches miraculously improve when Ondine accompanies him and sings haunting melodies in a foreign tongue. He soon falls in love, and starts to believe Ondine might have arrived from some sub-aquatic fairy domain.

Meanwhile, Syracuse's invalid child, Annie swiftly sniffs out the secret romance, becoming convinced of Ondine's otherworldly origins and learning of ancient legends that predict a gloomy outcome. Director Jordan skillfully blends realism with folk-lore - but the film contains some irritating credulity issues as it puffs up Ondine's magical attributes, and over-sweetens Annie with too many spoonfuls of saccharine cute. Other than these drawbacks 'Ondine' is a fairly charming fable, and comes within a seal's whisker of being seriously good.

Movie is very enjoyable if you are a Colin Farrell fan. If you are not you will probably not enjoy it as much as those who watch his movies just for him. This movie being an Irish movie allows Colin Farrell to talk like he would talk any day, with that amazing and very difficult to understand Irish accent. I watched the movie with subtitles because it was fairly difficult to understand the dialogue but it was neat to listen to anyways. The movie had a good plot, but it was fairly slow with no action. The movie contains lots of nature and it was pretty amazing to watch, makes you wanna move away to Ireland. The ending of the movie was disappointing and is the main reason i'm giving this movie a five, it had the potential of being better but it just didn't quit make it. Overall this movie had two things going for it, Colin Farrell and beautiful Ireland.

I have watched just about every movie you can think off. Ondine is one of the best I have ever watched. The characters are intriguing and complex, the mystery of the silk leaves it all to the imagination. Simply marvelous acting from Colin Farrell and The beautiful and stunning Alicja Bachleda and great cast of supporting actors. 10/10 cinema photography and script is masterfully written. Ondine should have won an Academy Award. I think this movie shows the diversity of the role that Colin Farrell can perform. I was still thinking about Miami Vice for the first five minutes of the film but then his accent and role was flawless. Well done mate top performance and why wouldn't you accept the role with Alicja who holds the screen in her own right and she made the water look like she belonged there!

A fisherman from the Cork area of southern Ireland (Colin Farrell) finds an enigmatic female in the water (Alicja Bachleda) whom his handicapped daughter (Alison Barry) believes is a selkie, a being capable of changing from seal to human form by shedding its skin. What is the truth? Dervla Kirwan plays the ex-wife, Tony Curran the "stepdad" and Stephen Rea the guiding priest.

Written & directed by Neil Jordan, "Ondine" (2009) is a lyrical coastal drama/mystery reminiscent of "The Seventh Stream" (2001) and "The Secret of Roan Inish" (1994). It mixes the haunting seaside fisherman element of "Orca" (1977) with the coastal mysteriousness of "Half Light" (2006), the romance of "Message in a Bottle" (1999) and the melancholic folk of "McCabe & Mrs. Miller" (1971).

The filmmaking is artsy with seeming ambiguities, sometimes annoyingly so (depending on your taste), while exploring the concept of wish fulfillment in the face of grim realities. Bachleda's beauty is tastefully displayed.

The characters speak in Irish/Scottish brogue and the dialogue is often realistically mumbled, making it difficult to understand for outsiders. Unfortunately, there are no English subtitles on the disc; so if you watch it via streaming I advise using subtitles.

The folk-oriented soundtrack sometimes throws in a welcome oddity like "Bathe in Blood" by Evile and "Then Comes Dudley" by The Jesus Lizard.

The film runs 1 hour, 42 minutes and was shot at Beara, County Cork, Ireland.

GRADE: B

I've always been a great admirer of writer/director Neil Jordan and consider him to be one of the greatest storytellers in the world of cinema. "Ondine" is one of my favorite movies of his, simply because it more or less represents a return to his roots and his devotion for fantasy/fairy-tale movies. Of course he will never make another masterpiece like "The Company of Wolves", but I very much prefer his fantasy films over the more mainstream and Hollywoodesque titles like "The Brave One" or "The Good Thief". Okay, so admittedly I'm a bit biased, but everything about "Ondine" feels right straight from the beginning. Beautiful images of the Irish Sea and coast side, enchanting music, a moody atmosphere and the immediate introduction of melancholic and deeply convoluted main characters. This film also finally offers native Irishman Colin Farrell the opportunity to depict the protagonist he was born to depict! Syracuse – nicknamed Circus because he used to behave like a clown when he was still a drunkard – is an independent fisherman on the verge of poverty, continuously in dispute with his alcoholic ex-wife and only trying to remain on the right path out of love for his severely ill daughter Annie. During the opening sequences of the film already, Syracuse drags his fishing nets back aboard of his boat and is astonished to find a beautiful girl caught in them. She calls herself Ondine and insists that only Syracuse knows of her existence. He shelters her in his deceased mother's coastal shed and doesn't mind keeping her around because all of a sudden his fisherman's nets are now miraculously full of thick juicy lobsters and rare quality salmons. When Annie finds out about Ondine, the little girl is convinced that she's a Selkie; a folklore mermaid-creature that can only remain on land if she marries a landsman and buries her seal coat. For the vast majority of its running time "Ondine" is a truly marvelous fantasy adventure with a dreamy atmosphere and identifiable characters. Unfortunately the climax is a bit disappointing, because Neil Jordan found it necessary to give a rational explanation at the end after all. I, for one, would have been perfectly satisfied if the plot remained mysterious and fantastic. "Ondine" is brought to an even higher quality-level thanks to the mesmerizing music of the awesome Icelandic band Sigur Rós (YouTube them in case you don't know their music!) and stellar performances from the entire ensemble cast. Colin Farrell is terrific, as stated already, but also the young girl Alison Barry impresses as Syracuse's daughter and Dervla Kirwan is brilliant as his loathsome and possessive ex- wife. Neil Jordan regular Stephen Rea appears as the priest where Syracuse goes to confess and – last but not least – there's the Polish actress Alicja Bachleda as the titular Ondine. She's a good actress and definitely one of the most ravishing beings – mermaid, human or otherwise – on this planet. I certainly don't blame Colin Farrell that he kept her close to him even long after the film was finalized

I know the myth of Ondine from the eponymous ballet. Let's just say this version is a bit more upbeat. Although there is a sense of foreboding through much of the film, this film's story of hope, love and belief is ultimately tender and optimistic.

The story begins when an Irish fisherman pulls up a young woman in his net. His daughter believes her to be a mythical creature, the young woman plays the role convincingly, and the fisherman just takes it day by day as most recovering alcoholics do, experiencing the young woman as a lucky charm and sexually entrancing...then danger begins to lurk. Ensuing plot twists further develop the characters, and their actions and fates are congruent with their personalities.

Colin Farrell is perfect for the role of an imperfect man who makes the best of adversity. Alicja Bachleda is convincing as a mysterious, frightened, resourceful but not entirely innocent creature. Alison Barry conveys strength not pathos in the role of a young girl who is more intelligent and thoughtful than her peers from a life spent in medical treatments.

Fisherman Syracuse (Colin Farrell) pull out a half-drowned Ondine (Alicja Bachleda) from his net. His daughter Annie is sick living with his ex-wife Maura. He lets Ondine stay in his late mother's cottage. Her singing seems to help with his catch. Annie starts to believe that Ondine is a selkie.

Neil Jordan has married a grungy indie with a sexy magical fable. The stark rundown harbor town contrast with the sexual fantasy being hinted at. It doesn't always blend together. It's a moody affair that doesn't completely work. I definitely wanted it to go harder into the fantasy realm but it seems intent on grounding it with the grungy real world.

Ondine is a movie that can truly be regarded as a modern day fairy tale. The story has been depicted so amazingly that it mesmerizes the audience and blesses them with a profound sense of compelling magic and fantasy. I am glad that after a long period of time I've watched a fabulous romantic movie, in the true sense of word. Romanticism is something that makes us escape our known world of mundane reality and takes us into a world of perpetual love, warm passion and incredible dreams. The story of Ondine has all the elements of a charming fairy tale and the ingeniousness with which it has been depicted makes it quite believable in the context of our known reality. It has all the elements of a fairy tale and yet it's an outstanding tale of the real world. The Selki myth, the struggling fisherman and her sick daughter, Ondine as the luck mascot, the monster who emerges to take Ondine away and the enthralling aura of mystery that shrouds the facts for long, make it a movie that's characterized by enchanting surprises, suspense, mystery, emotion and fantasy. What more can we expect from a fairy tale. The Selki mythology has been illustrated so wonderfully in the film that it endowed the plot with a compelling romanticism. It's a sensitive story of salvation, love and magic that we often dream of but seldom find in our concrete real world of facts. I particularly liked the ending of the film. Like a wonderful fairy tale it has a "they happily lived ever after" type of ending. After all the tensions, all problems are resolved at the end. I think such endings make us optimistic about life and give us the courage to dream over again. It's a very poignant and sensitive movie; a fascinating love story.

Ondine, produced by Neil Jordan, is a story about a fisherman by the name of Syracuse (Colin Farrell) who one day fishes from the sea a beautiful "woman" (Alicja Bachleda) who apparently lost her memory but keeps a more. She wants to be called Ondine since Ondine is "the one who came out from the waters first". The chemistry between Syracuse and Ondine exist and you witness a surprisingly true story of love between these 2 characters. In his journey to understand her he realizes she is nothing but the selkie (half-human half-seal who loves to sing) the locals knew from the story about "the fisherman and the girl in the net". Annie, a girl who suffers from a kidney failure disease, is Syracuse daughter and she keeps a strong balance between his father and Ondine but things get interesting when a special villain infiltrates in the story who tries to deceive and destroy all the hope that surrounds these two lovers. The story gets deeper and deeper especially into the second part of the movie where Syracuse is frightened that Ondine will haunt him forever and then the emotional conflicts begin. Other than that the ending contains twists that make the fairytale seem ... real in a real world.

The story is beautiful but it has it's points where you could skip like about 2-3 mins because nothing really happens or the dialogue is poor written but still that doesn't change the fact that the movie might get interesting once you're going through it. I never read the fairytale nor I saw other adaptations of Ondine but this one made it clear for me that this is a great movie to watch in a lazy afternoon all alone especially if you're going through melancholic times.

Like I said the acting was well mostly because the characters are written well and the chemistry exists between each pair though the Vladic (the villain) was kind of lame. The movie has a surprisingly good cinematography and the soundtrack fits the weird-fantasy atmosphere. I don't recommend this movie to everyone because it's not a movie for everyone simply because some won't understand it or some will bash it considering it boring or slow-paced but if you're into love tales or journeys into thoughtful worlds then this is the movie for you.

I did not expect this... SUPER film which is a hidden gem. So enjoyed the story- gives hope for the lost soul's of the world. A must see for anyone who enjoys luck and tragedy crossing paths and resulting in a feel good ending. I would buy this in a heartbeat.

I was intrigued from the beginning and can see why it was nominated for awards. Have no idea why it did not do better in the box office? Perhaps this was just not marketed correctly...

For parents... the rating is about right. Young teens would probably enjoy this, but may be a hair heavy for the under 10 crowd.

Final note- I would watch it again and enjoy it just the same if not more.