Ondine

Finally, after years of seeing him waste his talent in crappy films like Alexander and Miami Vice, Colin Farrell has been given a chance to really prove he’s more than a pretty face thanks to writer/director --- and fellow Irishman -- Neal Jordan. Ondine is a modern day fable about a small town fisherman named Syracuse (Farrell) whose live is changed when he pulls up his nets one misty morning to find a half-drowned girl trapped along with his meager catch of fish. She’s alive, but seems reluctant to tell him who she is and, more importantly, how the heck she ended up in his net. Syracuse – known in the village as Circus on account of his clownish behavior when he was drunk – takes the mystery in stride, even when circumstances start him thinking there’s something supernatural about the leggy lady who slowly works her way into his heart.