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Attractions: The Weekend We Went to the Dogs

Welcome back to Movieline Attractions, your regular guide to everything new, noteworthy and/or utterly debauched at the movies. And this week that debauchery comes in many forms — from the genre nasties to the rock-and-roll crazies to the tentpole uglies, you are covered , friends. So let’s hop over the electric fence and see if we can’t get into some trouble.

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Attractions: The Weekend We Went to the Dogs

The Verge: Alicja Bachleda

Some roles change an actress’s career, and then some roles change her life. Neil Jordan’s fairy-tale thriller Ondine did both for 27-year-old Alicja Bachleda, who stars in the title role as a mysterious young woman caught in the net of the Irish fisherman Syracuse (Colin Farrell). Revived and stabilized, she is thought by both Syracuse and his physically ailing daughter to possibly be a selkie — the mythical sea-woman creature of Irish folklore. Ondine’s gifts for singing fish into Syracuse’s net and treating the sick girl only compound the suspicion; their increasing closeness sets up a romance both on- and offscreen (Bachleda and Farrell became an item on the set, having a son together in 2008), not to mention a quintessentially Jordan-esque meditation on a woman who isn’t what she appears to be.

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The Verge: Alicja Bachleda