Chicago – One of the defining thematic elements in a Neil Jordan picture is a central relationships built upon a giant question mark, whether it be between a call girl and her chauffeur (“Mona Lisa”), an Ira volunteer and a seductive hairdresser (“The Crying Game”), or in this case, a fisherman and the woman he catches in his net.
Who is this luminous lady in the water? Is she some sort of mythical creature, perhaps a mermaid or a selkie? Is Jordan offering his own low-key take on “Splash,” much like how “Mona Lisa” seemed to be the filmmaker’s masterful variation on “Taxi Driver”? That certainly seems to be the case early on in “Ondine,” a rather endearing and evasive mood piece that holds its cards tightly to its chest until its final minutes. The story is a faerie tale clearly intended for adults, yet older kids and teenagers may...
Who is this luminous lady in the water? Is she some sort of mythical creature, perhaps a mermaid or a selkie? Is Jordan offering his own low-key take on “Splash,” much like how “Mona Lisa” seemed to be the filmmaker’s masterful variation on “Taxi Driver”? That certainly seems to be the case early on in “Ondine,” a rather endearing and evasive mood piece that holds its cards tightly to its chest until its final minutes. The story is a faerie tale clearly intended for adults, yet older kids and teenagers may...
- 9/30/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
The first poster for Ondine, a movie starring Colin Farrell has been released.
Ondine plot summary: 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 creature (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.
Hit the jump to see the full poster.
Academy Award winner, Neil Jordan (The Crying Game, Breakfast on Pluto, The Brave One), serves as both director and writer for the movie. Also starring Tony Curran, Stephen Rea, Tom Archdeacon, Dervla Kirwan, Emil Hostina, Don Wycherley and Norma Sheahan.
Ondine will hit limited theaters in the U.S. on June 4th, 2010.
Ondine Poster...
Ondine plot summary: 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 creature (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.
Hit the jump to see the full poster.
Academy Award winner, Neil Jordan (The Crying Game, Breakfast on Pluto, The Brave One), serves as both director and writer for the movie. Also starring Tony Curran, Stephen Rea, Tom Archdeacon, Dervla Kirwan, Emil Hostina, Don Wycherley and Norma Sheahan.
Ondine will hit limited theaters in the U.S. on June 4th, 2010.
Ondine Poster...
- 2/22/2010
- by Allan Ford
- Filmofilia
The trailer for Neil Jordan's ( Interview with the Vampire ) fantasy drama Ondine is now online and can be watched using the player below. Ondine is the enchanting story of Syracuse (Colin Farrell), a lonely fisherman who one day pulls a beautiful woman named Ondine (Alicja Bachleda) out of the sea in his nets. His young daughter Annie is convinced that she is a "selkie" .a creature from Irish folklore much like a mermaid. Syracuse has his doubts, but as Ondine brings some luck and joy to his otherwise downcast life, he starts to come around as well. The film, also starring Stephen Rea, Tony Curran, Dervla Kirwan, Tom Archdeacon, Don Wycherley, Emil Hostina and Norma Sheahan, is scheduled for a June 4 release.
- 2/8/2010
- Comingsoon.net
Armada Pictures International
PARK CITY -- "One Point 0" is a bit of Kafka, a touch of Orwell and Terry Gilliam and a whole lot of been-there-done-that. This dramatic competition film from Canadian-American Jeff Renfroe and Icelander Marteinn Thorsson takes yet another foray into a bleak future where computers and surveillance cameras rule everyday life. While the design of the film is highly imaginative, Renfroe and Thorsson's screenplay is an enervating rehash of science fiction themes too old to qualify as futuristic any longer.
The handful of streets and buildings that comprise the world of this movie are eerily deserted and dreary. The tenants of one particularly dingy high-rise act so weird that the place should be named Paranoid Manor. Simon J. (a game Jeremy Sisto) is a recluse who ventures from his apartment only to buy gallons of milk, which he swills all day while he labors as a computer programr.
One day, he finds a plain brown package in his apartment. He opens it, but nothing is inside. As time goes by, more packages mysteriously materialize inside this apartment, causing him to suspect his neighbors -- for good reason, though, because everyone is nuts. An older man (Udo Kier) spends his days perfecting an android face to whom he has given Simon's voice. The landlord (Emil Hostina) holes up in his security center where he watches his tenants via surveillance cameras. The maintenance man (Lance Henriksen) babbles mostly nonsense.
A muscular neighbor (Bruce Payne) keeps a ferocious dog and plays a computer game in which reality and fantasy mingle. The game eventually brings about his bloody death. The only remotely sane tenant is a weary nurse (Deborah Unger) who turns out to have a secret life as well.
Cryptic messages warn of viruses that can infect both humans and computers. Simon is starting to feel feverish. What is going on here? The filmmakers say their film is about nanotechnology and corporate control, but little in this oblique movie makes this clear.
The design of this future world is deliberately retro with a rotary dial telephone and a huge computer that looks like what someone in the 1950s might imagine a contemporary computer to be. The colors in Christopher Soos' cinematography are harsh greens and reds, suggesting that the whole thing might be a hallucination or a nightmare. So a mood of feverish paranoia is solidly established, but the unoriginal narrative betrays its empty purpose.
PARK CITY -- "One Point 0" is a bit of Kafka, a touch of Orwell and Terry Gilliam and a whole lot of been-there-done-that. This dramatic competition film from Canadian-American Jeff Renfroe and Icelander Marteinn Thorsson takes yet another foray into a bleak future where computers and surveillance cameras rule everyday life. While the design of the film is highly imaginative, Renfroe and Thorsson's screenplay is an enervating rehash of science fiction themes too old to qualify as futuristic any longer.
The handful of streets and buildings that comprise the world of this movie are eerily deserted and dreary. The tenants of one particularly dingy high-rise act so weird that the place should be named Paranoid Manor. Simon J. (a game Jeremy Sisto) is a recluse who ventures from his apartment only to buy gallons of milk, which he swills all day while he labors as a computer programr.
One day, he finds a plain brown package in his apartment. He opens it, but nothing is inside. As time goes by, more packages mysteriously materialize inside this apartment, causing him to suspect his neighbors -- for good reason, though, because everyone is nuts. An older man (Udo Kier) spends his days perfecting an android face to whom he has given Simon's voice. The landlord (Emil Hostina) holes up in his security center where he watches his tenants via surveillance cameras. The maintenance man (Lance Henriksen) babbles mostly nonsense.
A muscular neighbor (Bruce Payne) keeps a ferocious dog and plays a computer game in which reality and fantasy mingle. The game eventually brings about his bloody death. The only remotely sane tenant is a weary nurse (Deborah Unger) who turns out to have a secret life as well.
Cryptic messages warn of viruses that can infect both humans and computers. Simon is starting to feel feverish. What is going on here? The filmmakers say their film is about nanotechnology and corporate control, but little in this oblique movie makes this clear.
The design of this future world is deliberately retro with a rotary dial telephone and a huge computer that looks like what someone in the 1950s might imagine a contemporary computer to be. The colors in Christopher Soos' cinematography are harsh greens and reds, suggesting that the whole thing might be a hallucination or a nightmare. So a mood of feverish paranoia is solidly established, but the unoriginal narrative betrays its empty purpose.
Armada Pictures International
PARK CITY -- "One Point 0" is a bit of Kafka, a touch of Orwell and Terry Gilliam and a whole lot of been-there-done-that. This dramatic competition film from Canadian-American Jeff Renfroe and Icelander Marteinn Thorsson takes yet another foray into a bleak future where computers and surveillance cameras rule everyday life. While the design of the film is highly imaginative, Renfroe and Thorsson's screenplay is an enervating rehash of science fiction themes too old to qualify as futuristic any longer.
The handful of streets and buildings that comprise the world of this movie are eerily deserted and dreary. The tenants of one particularly dingy high-rise act so weird that the place should be named Paranoid Manor. Simon J. (a game Jeremy Sisto) is a recluse who ventures from his apartment only to buy gallons of milk, which he swills all day while he labors as a computer programr.
One day, he finds a plain brown package in his apartment. He opens it, but nothing is inside. As time goes by, more packages mysteriously materialize inside this apartment, causing him to suspect his neighbors -- for good reason, though, because everyone is nuts. An older man (Udo Kier) spends his days perfecting an android face to whom he has given Simon's voice. The landlord (Emil Hostina) holes up in his security center where he watches his tenants via surveillance cameras. The maintenance man (Lance Henriksen) babbles mostly nonsense.
A muscular neighbor (Bruce Payne) keeps a ferocious dog and plays a computer game in which reality and fantasy mingle. The game eventually brings about his bloody death. The only remotely sane tenant is a weary nurse (Deborah Unger) who turns out to have a secret life as well.
Cryptic messages warn of viruses that can infect both humans and computers. Simon is starting to feel feverish. What is going on here? The filmmakers say their film is about nanotechnology and corporate control, but little in this oblique movie makes this clear.
The design of this future world is deliberately retro with a rotary dial telephone and a huge computer that looks like what someone in the 1950s might imagine a contemporary computer to be. The colors in Christopher Soos' cinematography are harsh greens and reds, suggesting that the whole thing might be a hallucination or a nightmare. So a mood of feverish paranoia is solidly established, but the unoriginal narrative betrays its empty purpose.
PARK CITY -- "One Point 0" is a bit of Kafka, a touch of Orwell and Terry Gilliam and a whole lot of been-there-done-that. This dramatic competition film from Canadian-American Jeff Renfroe and Icelander Marteinn Thorsson takes yet another foray into a bleak future where computers and surveillance cameras rule everyday life. While the design of the film is highly imaginative, Renfroe and Thorsson's screenplay is an enervating rehash of science fiction themes too old to qualify as futuristic any longer.
The handful of streets and buildings that comprise the world of this movie are eerily deserted and dreary. The tenants of one particularly dingy high-rise act so weird that the place should be named Paranoid Manor. Simon J. (a game Jeremy Sisto) is a recluse who ventures from his apartment only to buy gallons of milk, which he swills all day while he labors as a computer programr.
One day, he finds a plain brown package in his apartment. He opens it, but nothing is inside. As time goes by, more packages mysteriously materialize inside this apartment, causing him to suspect his neighbors -- for good reason, though, because everyone is nuts. An older man (Udo Kier) spends his days perfecting an android face to whom he has given Simon's voice. The landlord (Emil Hostina) holes up in his security center where he watches his tenants via surveillance cameras. The maintenance man (Lance Henriksen) babbles mostly nonsense.
A muscular neighbor (Bruce Payne) keeps a ferocious dog and plays a computer game in which reality and fantasy mingle. The game eventually brings about his bloody death. The only remotely sane tenant is a weary nurse (Deborah Unger) who turns out to have a secret life as well.
Cryptic messages warn of viruses that can infect both humans and computers. Simon is starting to feel feverish. What is going on here? The filmmakers say their film is about nanotechnology and corporate control, but little in this oblique movie makes this clear.
The design of this future world is deliberately retro with a rotary dial telephone and a huge computer that looks like what someone in the 1950s might imagine a contemporary computer to be. The colors in Christopher Soos' cinematography are harsh greens and reds, suggesting that the whole thing might be a hallucination or a nightmare. So a mood of feverish paranoia is solidly established, but the unoriginal narrative betrays its empty purpose.
- 1/21/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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