Streaming Netflix Movie of the Week - Ondine

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What the streaming Netflix interface really needs is a slot machine interface like many of the iPhone apps have. But failing that, I just use my game controller to bop around the rows and columns of mysterious movie icons until something catches my eye. Last night's foray into the unknown was a winner. It's a simple, lyrical little Irish indie movie about a fisherman who dredges a young woman out of the ocean in one of his fishing nets and what happens after that. The moody soundtrack and lovingly slow panning shots of the shoreline of County Cork, Ireland, are much of the movie's charm. So watch it on the biggest TV you have, not on your laptop.

It's written and directed by Neil Jordan, who also wrote/directed the "The Crying Game." Personally, I thought "Ondine" was the better movie. Not perfect, but well worth watching.