{{For|the definition of the word "deeply"|wikt:deeply}} {{more citations needed|date=February 2021}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2021}} {{Infobox film |name = Deeply |image = Deeply (2000 film).jpg |caption = Original DVD cover |director = Sheri Elwood |producer = Karen Arikian<br/>Carolynne Bell<br/>'''Executive producer:'''<br/>Bess Fotopoulos<br/>John Hamilton<br/>Wolfram Tichy |writer = Sheri Elwood |narrator = |starring = Julia Brendler<br/>Kirsten Dunst<br/>Lynn Redgrave |music = Micki Meuser |cinematography = Sebastian Edschmid |editing = Jon Gregory |distributor = Myriad Pictures |released = {{Film date|2000|09|11}} |runtime = 101 minutes |country = Canada |language = English |budget = }} '''''Deeply''''' is a 2000 film directed by Sheri Elwood, starring Julia Brendler, Lynn Redgrave and Kirsten Dunst.
==Plot== Having suffered the death of her boyfriend, Claire McKay is brought by her mother to Ironbound Island in the hopes that time away from the city will allow her to recover emotionally. On the island where her mother was born, Claire meets an eccentric writer, Celia, who in flashbacks, relates her own story as a grief-stricken teenager in 1949. Celia—Silly in the flashbacks—is the next chosen victim of a Viking curse which was placed on the island centuries ago when their longship sank in the bay.
The nature of the curse is such that a "chosen one" is born every fifty years, and they are destined to die at sea in order for the fish the island depends on to continue to return. During the flashbacks Silly discovers a list of past victims, and that she is the next. However, in the end Silly is not claimed by the sea, which instead takes her lover. The narrator says something to the effect of what better alternative to taking the chosen one than to take her lover instead, leaving her to bear the pain. As Celia tells her own story of love and loss, Claire eventually undergoes a catharsis and again plays the violin that she has not touched since her own loss. The final images of the movie show a shoal of fish, which points to the fact that the fish do indeed return to the island.
==Cast== {{Cast listing| * Julia Brendler as Claire McKay * Lynn Redgrave as Celia * Kirsten Dunst as Silly * Molly Dunsworth as Silly (Age 6) * Trent Ford as James * Brent Carver as Porter * Alberta Watson as Fiona McKay * Peter Donaldson as Dr. Stone * Daniel Brühl as Jay * Mark Day as Tough Hal }}
==Production== The film was shot on East Ironbound island, Nova Scotia. It was a Canadian-German co-production.<ref name="Brown2000">{{cite news |last1=Brown |first1=Dan |title=Hitting the Big Screen in a Small Way |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/national-post-hitting-the-big-screen-in/167406303/ |access-date=7 March 2025 |work=National Post |date=16 September 2000 |pages=22}}</ref>
==Reception== Katrina Onstad, writing in the ''National Post'', thought that while the film often "moves too slowly" and was too unaffected, it was "impressive is its fearlessness".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Onstad |first1=Katrina |title=It's Hard to Cure Those Ancient Viking Curses |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/national-post-its-hard-to-cure-those-an/167406265/ |access-date=7 March 2025 |work=National Post |date=11 September 2000 |pages=51 |author-link=Katrina Onstad}}</ref>
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==External links== * {{IMDb title|0218141|Deeply}}
Category:2000 romantic drama films Category:Films about writers Category:English-language Canadian films Category:Canadian romantic drama films Category:2000 films Category:Films shot in Nova Scotia Category:German romantic drama films Category:2000 English-language films Category:2000 Canadian films Category:2000 German films Category:English-language romantic drama films