Ondine Reviews

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• You'll need a soft spot for this kind of whimsy, and mine sadly is like reinforced concrete

  by Peter Bradshaw [Guardian ]

• Though the ending feels tacked on, there's imagination here as well as style

  by Derek Malcolm [This is London ]

• there is enough saving grace on these craggy shores to let the mists and the legends roll in and envelop you for a while

  by Betsy Sharkey [LA Times ]

• strikingly suggestive

  by Ed Gonzalez [Slant Magazine ]

• Ondine looks heavy and it ends up feeling a little slight, but between those two extremes there's a beguiling siren song of a movie about the way the unexpected has a way of intruding on even the most fatalistic lives

  Review rate : B by Keith Phipps [A.V. Club ]

• Ondine is ultimately more a flawed exercise in storytelling than an honest-to-God failure

  by Chris Cabin [http://www.filmcritic.com/reviews/2009/ondine/ ]

• Ondine effectively sustains a mood of a hazy melancholy most affecting when nothing much is happening

  by Karina Longworth [Village Voice ]

• If only the film had stuck with its fairy-tale story. Instead, the final 30 minutes turn into a bloody thriller with a tacked-on happy ending

  by V.A. Musetto [NY Post ]

• Funny, whimsical and as warming as a big bowl of Irish stew

  by David Hughes [Empire Magazine ]

• a pure delight and resonant beyond its slight contours

  by Pam Grady [Boxoffice Magazine ]

• A lyrical, if slight, breeze of an Irish fable

  by Michael Rechtshaffen [Hollywood Reporter ]

• A fairy tale mashed up against the jagged unpleasantries of the modern world

  by Todd McCarthy [Variety ]
• Reviewed by Manohla Dargis [NY Times ]

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