Ondine (2009)

Alicja Bachleda: Ondine

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• Ondine : I don't want to see anyone.

  Syracuse : Well I just disappear then?

  Ondine : I don't mind seeing you.

  Syracuse : "You don't mind seeing me." That's nice.

  Ondine : Say again?

  Syracuse : Most people do.

• Annie : This town is what you call sartorially challenged.

  Ondine : What does that mean?

  Annie : A supermodel's nightmare. Do selkies do lingerie? Why not? They wear seaweed knickers and a scallopy bra.

  [Syracuse stifles laughing] 

  Annie : But that's underwater. Won't do here. I'm not suggesting she buy them all, Da. Just a selection.

• Ondine : Can I...

  Syracuse : What?

  Ondine : Can I clean up this place?

  Syracuse : I suppose. How long are you staying?

  Ondine : Depends, I guess.

  Syracuse : On what?

  Ondine : On you.

  Syracuse : On me?

  [pleased] 

  Syracuse : It depends on me, you can stay forever.

  Ondine : Forever?

  [chuckles] 

  Syracuse : Forever. Happily ever after. Once upon a time. I've been... telling my daughter a story... uh, a fairytale.

  [exits] 

  Annie : [hidden, to herself]  What's the story, Da?

• [last lines] 

  Annie : What about your past lives?

  Ondine : Are you sure I have them?

  Annie : Oh yeah, everybody does. It's just a matter of remembering.

  Annie : [to her dad]  Stop peeping, would you?

  Syracuse : I don't peep.

  Annie : I mean, you could have even been married in one of them...

• Syracuse : You don't like the dress?

  Ondine : No, I like it. It's just, underwear would be better.

  Syracuse : Doesn't fit?

  Ondine : Tight around the edges.

  Syracuse : You have edges?

• Syracuse : What's wrong with being seen?

  Ondine : Nothing. When you look good.

• Syracuse : [Ondine is sitting on the wheelhouse floor, steering the boat with her foot, showing lots of leg]  You can't really guide a boat with your foot.

  Ondine : I'm not doing well?

  Syracuse : No, I never say that!

• Annie : [happens upon Ondine as Ondine swims to the shore]  Curiouser and curiouser.

  Ondine : What's that?

  Annie : What Alice said to the White Rabbit.

  Ondine : Come again?

  Annie : Curiouser and...

  Ondine : curiouser.

  Annie : See. I knew you were real.

  Ondine : I was real?

  Annie : Yes. I knew it wasn't a story.

  Ondine : What wasn't a story?

  Annie : The fisherman. The girl in the net.

  Ondine : Ahh.

  Annie : My da told me a story about you.

  Ondine : Your dad is Syracuse?

  Annie : Yeah, the fisherman.

• Syracuse : Do you remember your name?

  Ondine : You can call me Ondine.

  Syracuse : That's nice. What's it mean?

  Ondine : "She came from the water."

  Syracuse : Ondine... means, "she came from the water?"

  Ondine : No, Ondine was the girl that came from the water.

  Syracuse : When?

  Ondine : Long time ago.

• Ondine : What's your name?

  Syracuse : My name's Syracuse, but people call me Circus.

  Ondine : Why?

  Syracuse : To let on, you know, that I'm a clown.

  Ondine : A clown... in a circus?

  Syracuse : Something like that.

  Ondine : I think I'll call you... Syra...

  Syracuse : Syracuse. OK, then.

• Syracuse : [Ondine singing as she hand washes clothes in the brook that flows into the cove]  You still here?

  Ondine : You thought I'd be gone?

  Syracuse : No. Thought I'd dreamed it.

  Ondine : You dreamed you fished me from the water?

  Syracuse : Something like that.

  Ondine : So are you still dreaming now?

  Syracuse : Well, that's my mother's coat.

  Ondine : Sorry. I had to wash my dress.

  Syracuse : Doesn't suit the dream.

  Ondine : No?

  Syracuse : No. She was large... my ma, and kinda awkward.

  Ondine : Awkward?

  Syracuse : She... yes, she was not like you.

  Ondine : I can be awkward.

  Syracuse : So can most of us.

• Ondine : [Syracuse pulls the boat to the dock]  Going fishing?

  Syracuse : Yes. Thought I might catch another.

  Ondine : Another girl like me?

  Syracuse : Yes. Maybe the sea is full of them.

  Ondine : Can I come with?

  Syracuse : No.

  Ondine : Why?

  Syracuse : I thought you didn't want to be seen.

  Ondine : I can hide again.

  Syracuse : And it's bad luck.

  Ondine : A girl on a boat?

  Syracuse : For the fishing.

  Ondine : Have you been having good luck lately?

  Syracuse : [chuckles]  No.

  [Ondine aimlessly paces the dock] 

  Syracuse : OK then. Get in.

• Ondine : Curiouser and curiouser.

  Syracuse : Where did you hear that?

  Ondine : Alice said it.

  Syracuse : To the White Rabbit. Annie says it, too.

  Ondine : Annie?

  Syracuse : My daughter.

• Syracuse : Sing again, would you?

  [Ondine sings and Syracuse hauls up a full lobster pot] 

  Syracuse : Jesus... you bring me luck.

  Ondine : Luck?

  Syracuse : Haven't had much.

  Ondine : Everyone needs luck.

  Syracuse : They do. Not everyone gets it.

  Ondine : Maybe it's your turn.

  Syracuse : That would be nice.