A fisherman
finds a mysterious girl in his net. Is she a normal girl or a creature from the
sea?
Neil Jordan
finally goes back to the world of myth and fables more than 26 years after the
wonderful “The Company of Wolves” and again he deliver a masterpiece. Among his
peers he is the best at this, he get the inner meaning of these stories and
deliver them so perfectly in such an effortless way that he manages to pull of
the best mermaid story ever without a single CGI shot.
The story,
also written by Jordan, is tight and smart. The ambiguity about the true nature
of Ondine, the aforementioned girl from the sea, is maintained till the very
end. He manages to make all the characters are realistic and interesting
without slowing the story a single bit, no slow introduction for them, we jump
straight in and we learn to know them as the story unfold.
The
setting, Cork County in Ireland, Is stunning and Jordan uses it the frame and
enrich every shot. I know that it sounds obvious but his younger peers,
Marshall in “Centurion” and Refn in “Walhalla Rising” somehow don’t understand
this simple truth.
Strong
performance from everybody involved. Collin Farrel finally starts to move away
from the Character that he’s been virtually playing in every movie that he made
in the last five years while the titular ondine, the polish Alicja Bachleda,
and the child actress Dervla Kirwan establish themselves as name to watch
closely.
In the end
is amazing how Jordan manages to convey the inner meaning and significance of
the myth, that he really conveys that is how you see your life that matters.
A masterpiece.
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