This movie is a one-of-a-kind experience – blarney carried to rhapsodic heights.
90
Movieline
Stephanie Zacharek
Ondine suggests that coincidence and magic are often the same thing.
80
Boxoffice Magazine
Pam Grady
Ondine is Injected with a heavy dose of magic and has a lot going for it: an endearing performance from star Colin Farrell, Christopher Doyle's evocative cinematography and a captivating-if thin-story.
80
NPR
Ella Taylor
Ondine plumbs the country's most resonant fairy tale and plays impishly along the borders of postcard fantasies of Ireland.
Mostly, though, Ondine deftly demonstrates just how far we'll reach for any promise of relief from life's hardships, in whatever form -- magic or plain dumb luck -- it arrives.