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''Ondine'' is a 2009 Irish romantic drama film directed and written by Neil Jordan and starring Colin Farrell and Alicja Bachleda. The film was shot on location in Castletownbere, Ireland, and touches the possible existence of the mythological selkie bringing hope and love to humans they so much want to become. The film had its North American premiere as part of the Toronto International Film Festival on 14 September 2009 in Toronto, Canada, and European premiere as part of the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival on 18 February 2010 in Dublin, Ireland. ==Plot== Syracuse "Circus" (Colin Farrell) is trawling with his fishing boat and pulls up a catch and finds a barely dressed young woman caught in his net. He sees she is alive and resuscitates her. She calls herself Ondine (Alicja Bachleda) and refuses the idea to be taken to hospital as she doesn't want to be seen by anyone else. Circus accepts she has no memory to explain her situation. He shelters her in a caravan house in a quiet harbor that belonged to his late mother. This makes him late picking up his wheelchair bound daughter Annie (Alison Barry) who stays with his ex-wife Maura (Dervla Kirwan). During Annie's dialysis, he tells her a story about a fisherman that catches a woman out of the sea. Annie explains the woman could be a magical selkie. Annie receives a new powerchair from the CRC, and is returned home being greeted by Maura's boyfriend Alex (Tony Curran). Maura flips Circus off for missing the doctor for news on a kidney match for Annie, he returns to his empty house alone. Next morning, Circus finds Ondine washing clothes in a stream, singing gracefully in an unknown language. She follows him on his boat to work the day. No surprise, Circus pulls up only empty lobster pots, until Ondine starts singing, then every one after contain a catch. He doesn't believe her singing was magical since the lobsters were already trapped. Still not wanting to be seen, Ondine doesn't come with Circus to the fish market where the lobsters are sold for a handsome profit, as there aren't supposed to be any left. Circus buys a dress and lies to the store clerk that it's for Annie when she grows up. Circus picks up Annie at school, instead she races him to her home in her powerchair. Circus continues the fisherman story to Annie, how the woman sings to the fish and he catches them, song in a language he has never heard before. Annie adds Selk is the language of the selkie, and communicate underwater by song. Circus stammers that his lobsters hear her sing, which makes Annie curious as to whose story this is, and secretly follows him to the caravan. Circus presents the messages (Irish slang for sundries) to Ondine, who is putting on some boots but stops at doing the laces, Circus does them for her because he thinks she's never seen boots before. Asking how long she will stay, Ondine says it is up to him. Humored, Circus answers forever and happily ever after, riding the fairytale he has been building with Annie, who is watching them without being noticed. Annie is back home studying all her new library books on seals and selkies, as Alex is seen with a beer in the far background playing Air guitar. Alex says selkies are a Scottish thing, but not the one Annie saw. Circus meets with the priest (Stephen Rea) for a confession, who has repeatedly told Circus that this isn't AA. Circus recalls a recurring nightmare where he is at Alex's funeral and reunited with Maura, still with her drinking problem. As the priest pushes the subject away, Circus brings up the woman he pulled out of the water with his net and kept her. Ondine is by herself tidying up the caravan, and tries her new clothing as if the experience was a first, especially when she stretches leggings over one splayed hand so it looks webbed. The next day, Ondine is swimming and is met by an unexpected Annie, they bond together talking about selkies, none of which Ondine denies, kissing Annie goodbye before she leaves back to her Mam. Circus is in the library asking for books about selkies, but discovers that Annie took them all. Annie runs into some neighbourhood kids showing off their bicycles, lets one of the kids play with her powerchair, it shorts out driving into water. The kids abandon "spaz" Annie, who is left alone to push it back home, to find Alex drinking beer. As Alex dries out the batteries, Annie asks again about selkies, he tells her they come from his homeland Outer Hebrides, but Ondine doesn't speak like him. Circus brings Ondine fishing again to steer the tiller, until a Fisheries board patrol boat zooms by, causing Ondine to hide down and continue steering with her leg, which Circus lets her carry on and is embarrassed of his attraction to Ondine, who begins singing again as he is pulling up his net, and shockingly finds it filled with a bountiful catch of salmon, that doesn't come from trawling. Ondine hides as the patrol boat return to inspect for prohibited gillnetting, the guards look for the truth by finding dry gillnets and Ondine hidden in them. Circus wasn't sure if she could be seen, the guards obey Ondine's answer to how the fish were impossibly caught, like some fairytale. Glad that Ondine isn't invisible, Circus boats into the town harbor to sell their catch, where everyone stares at Ondine, including an unscrupulous dark-haired man who is looking for her. Circus and Ondine go shopping for clothes and run into Annie, who helps her with outfits, as townsfolk gawk through the store window eyeing a very pretty Ondine. Later, Circus wants to pickup Annie for local regatta festivities, Maura says she already left to see the Water Baby. Ondine gets another surprise visit from Annie, and sees the caravan has been cleaned by Snow White. Learning that Annie can't swim, they both play in the shallow water, where Ondine finds something that Annie thinks is her seal coat, and they bury it in the greenhouse. Annie wants Ondine to stay for seven years, unless the selkie husband claims her back, and shares this with Circus as they all boat into town, Ondine warns Annie that she isn't selk and can't grant wishes. Upset, Annie pretends to have brake failure to throw herself off the pier, to test Ondine's ability to breath underwater, who jumps in to her rescue. They bring Annie back to Maura and Alex, who share with Annie that a man was asking for Ondine. This gives Annie a nightmare about the selkie husband coming. Ondine and Circus back in the caravan, explains he's Circus the Clown because he was an alcoholic like Maura. He stopped for Annie, yet custody went to the mother. Back in the confessional, Circus tells the priest he sinned with Ondine the night before, and afraid of the good luck she brings, since he lost hope long ago. As he leaves outside on his way to Annie, the unknown man approaches him about Ondine, Circus ignores him. Circus brings Annie back from dialysis, but is locked out since Maura and Alex are drinking in a pub, Annie asks to be left with them. Circus returns to find the caravan has been ransacked, and Ondine hiding nearby from the man looking to take her back. Circus wants Ondine to stay and asks her to wish the man away, but her only wish is for Annie not to be sick. Ondine's man is back in town driving with rage, causing an accident with Maura who was drunk driving, killing Alex who is thrown dead out the windshield. Ondine and Circus follow Annie to the hospital, and learn she is getting an immediate kidney transplant from Alex who opted as a donor. The man is also brought to the hospital, and asks Ondine why she speaks their language as they both don't belong here. Circus is with Maura at the funeral, they both get drunk at the wake, and wants him to get rid of Ondine because of bad luck, now hiding in his boat. Intoxicated and irrational, Circus maroons Ondine at Roancarrig Lighthouse island because he thinks she will haunt him forever, as humans and selk don't belong together. Dusk comes and some driftwood gives Ondine's basking shilouette to have a seal tail, she jumps into the sea towards the seals on Seal Rock. Having slept in a tree overnight, the priest wakes up a depressed Circus, brings Annie from hospital to his home, she comforts him by saying Ondine will be back because she left something behind. Annie watches TV with Sigur Rós performing, Circus recognizes they are the songs of Ondine, and goes back to find her on Seal Rock to demand the truth. Ondine gives one version that she is a sea creature that found her seal coat and buried it so she can stay with a family she loves. She unfolds how she is a drug mule from Romania, and her pushta Vladic (Emil Hostina) were evading the Coast Guards, swam away with the backpack of heroin since he couldn't, floated in the sea to drown until Circus saved her. Circus brings Ondine back to Annie where they are ambushed by Vladic and another gunman, that Annie thinks want the seal coat. Everyone goes to the greenhouse to dig it up, but find nothing because Annie had moved it. Ondine promises to stay with Annie, revealing it was moved to a lobster pot. As they pull that up, Annie reminds Ondine that she is a selkie yet Vladic isn't, Ondine trips Vladic overboard by pulling on the rope he is standing on, who drowns going after the falling lobster pot pushed back in by Annie. Circus tackles the other Romanian into the water, disarming him and is arrested ashore, along with Ondine, who faces deportation if she doesn't become a national. Annie is seen making a confession to the priest who is to wed Circus and Ondine, completing the fairytale how selkie women often find unexpected happiness with a landsman. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ondine (film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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