Secret of Roan Inish
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A lovely, lyrical and intelligent Irish fable, "The Secret of Roan Inish" is the best "family movie" to come along in some time - even if the only place you can see it is the local cinema art house, the Tower Theater.
Adapted (from Rosalie K. Fry's 1957 novella, "The Secret of Ron Mor Skerry") by American filmmaker John Sayles, the story is built around the legend of "Sel-kies," which in Irish mythology are half-human/half-seal creatures.
The setting is a small Irish village just after World War II, and the central character is a 10-year-old girl named Fiona (Jeni Court-ney) who is sent to live with her grandparents (Mick Lally, Eileen Colgan).
At night, gazing out her window, Fiona becomes fascinated with the distant island called Roan Inish, and from her grandfather - and later a "touched" cousin named Tadhg Conneelly (John Lynch) - she begins to learn the story of her parents.
As this fable is told delicately and beautifully in a series of flashbacks, I don't want to give too much away - but suffice it to say that Fiona discovers that she has a long-lost brother named Jamie, who apparently was pulled out to sea in his cradle by Selkies.
Fiona decides to search for Jamie on Roan Inish and soon finds a number of clues that he may indeed be in the vicinity. Her grandparents are, naturally, rather skeptical - but eventually, they all discover the truth of this apparent "myth."[1]
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