Colin Farrell stepped outside his comfort zone when he took the role of a fisherman in "Ondine." This film is about a recovering alcoholic Irish fisherman who pulled a suspicious girl out of the water one day. The girl thought she had died and insisted that she shouldn't be seen by anyone and couldn't remember her past. That same day, the fisherman tells his sick daughter the story and she insists that he found a sea creature. I really wish that the film had followed the whimsy set up in the beginning of the film, but alas it's an Irish film about the gritty reality. Throughout the film, you are shown the fisherman's struggle with his alcoholic ex-wife who has custody of his very sick daughter as well as a mysterious and creepy man out to find Ondine. This film only gets 3 stars out of 5 because of the more somber moments that appeared in a film that I thought would be much more based in fantasy than reality. However, it does have some surprisingly uplifting moments, so I would recommend it to see a different side of Colin Farrell.
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