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Oct 27, 2000 · I Could Read the Sky: Directed by Nichola Bruce. With Dermot Healy, Stephen Rea, Brendan Coyle, Maria Doyle Kennedy. The film tells of the memories and feeling of loss of an Irish immigrant who eventually winds up doing construction work in the anonymous cities of England.
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I Could Read the Sky is a 1999 Irish film directed by Nichola Bruce. It is based upon a photographic novel by Timothy O'Grady and Steve Pyke, which concerns the Irish experience of emigration and exile. It has been described as an "innovative, melancholic, and deeply moving film".
An elderly Irish man (Dermot Healy) thinks about his life as he sits alone in a shabby room in London. He recalls his childhood along the Western Coast of Ireland, and then his days as a laborer as he moved to London from his native land.
I Could Read the Sky. This impressionistic film about memory and nostalgia focuses on an elderly man (Dermot Healy) in London who is pondering his younger days in Ireland.
- Nicola Bruce
- Drama
- Dermot Healy
I Could Read The Sky. Details: 1999, Ireland, Rest of the world, UK, Cert 15, 86 mins. Direction: Nichola Bruce and Nicola Bruce. Genre: Drama. Summary: An elderly Irish immigrant living in ...
I Could Read the Sky. Friday 27 October 2000. The Guardian. An almost unbearable sense of regret and loss is exuded by this prose poem on celluloid, directed by Nichola Bruce and photographed...
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Sep 10, 2012 · Timothy O'Grady and Steve Pyke's photo-novel I Could Read the Sky juxtaposed words and images, landscape and interiority, memory and loss to evoke the Irish emigrant experience. This...
