# Identify an obscure Irish movie for me with the barest of info **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [February 18, 2022, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-an-obscure-irish-movie-for-me-with-the-barest-of-info/959755 "2022-02-18T20:39:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2022, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-an-obscure-irish-movie-for-me-with-the-barest-of-info/959755/1 "2022-02-18T20:39:16Z")
This has been buggin for quite some while, and it is entirely possible that I have conflated two or three movies as one. The primary plot I recall seemed to have to do with a woman harboring/hiding a man in the shed, a man, I think, who had appeared out of nowhere, perhaps on the beach, possibly after a shipwreck. It takes place in a small town on the Irish coast (seemed like the east coast to me). The scene that sticks in my head is a church service, in which the camera slowly pans across the seated parishoners until it reaches the back of the church, whereupon the confessional bursts forth with the priest chasing the man out the door shouting, “Get out of this church and don’t come back until you stop doing that!” The cast was largely people whom I think were not particularly well known outside of Ireland, but with possibly one fairly famous actor – I had thought Stephen Rea, but there seems to be nothing of the sort in his catalog. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2022, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-an-obscure-irish-movie-for-me-with-the-barest-of-info/959755/2 "2022-02-18T21:20:47Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > The primary plot I recall seemed to have to do with a woman harboring/hiding a man in the shed, a man, I think, who had appeared out of nowhere, perhaps on the beach, possibly after a shipwreck. That reminds me of _[Ladies in Lavender](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladies_in_Lavender)_; woman (actually two sisters) find man washed ashore after shipwreck. Don’t remember the bit about the church service and it was set in Cornwall, not Ireland. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2022, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-an-obscure-irish-movie-for-me-with-the-barest-of-info/959755/3 "2022-02-18T21:28:53Z")
As I recall, the woman sheltering the man was much younger, like under 30. ---
**Author:** ![TCMF-2L](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tcmf-2l/32/16553_2.png) [@TCMF-2L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TCMF-2L)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2022, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-an-obscure-irish-movie-for-me-with-the-barest-of-info/959755/4 "2022-02-18T21:50:52Z")
Some (and obviously not all) of the details match **Ondine** including Rea being in it > **[Ondine (film)](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ondine_(film))** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > > Ondine is a 2009 Irish romantic drama film written and directed by Neil Jordan and starring Colin Farrell and Alicja Bachleda. The film was shot on location in Castletownbere, and it touches upon the possible existence of the mythological selkie bringing hope and love to humans they so much want to become. > The film had its North American premiere as part of the Toronto International Film Festival on 14 September 2009 in Toronto and European pr... TCMF-2L ---
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> [@eschereal](#): > > the confessional bursts forth with the priest chasing the man out the door shouting, “Get out of this church and don’t come back until you stop doing that!” I’d be willing to devote 90 minutes to watch a movie knowing only it contained that one scene.