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I've Heard the Mermaids Singing: Directed by Patricia Rozema. With Sheila McCarthy, Paule Baillargeon, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Richard Monette. Scatterbrained Polly gets a job as a secretary in Gabrielle's art gallery.
- (2K)
- Patricia Rozema
- R
- 2 min
Polly (Sheila McCarthy), the heroine of “I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing,” is a 31-year-old Toronto woman who does not think the mermaids will sing to her. The most important thing in her life is photography, and sometimes she even dreams of the pictures she will take.
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I've Heard the Mermaids Singing centres on the engaging and whimsical Polly Vandersma (Sheila McCarthy), a naive and “organizationally impaired”temporary secretary and amateur photographer in Toronto. Polly tells the story of her unwitting involvement in art fraud to a video camera stolen from her workplace. Though timid and gauche on the outside, ...
With its emphasis on an eccentric, single woman, its non-sensational representation of lesbianism and its imaginative use of video-in-film to construct Polly's retrospective narrative, Mermaids emerged as an unusual mainstream Canadian film. Yet Patricia Rozemauses these strategies, often associated with experimental and feminist counter-cinema, to...
Mermaids was invited to premiere in the Directors Fortnight program at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival, where it received standing ovations and won the coveted Prix de la Jeunesse for best first feature. After Rozema and Raffé secured distribution in the United States (through Miramax) and more than 30 other countries, the film became an internationa...
David L. Pike has noted that Mermaids was “seen by many as the first salvo of the Ontario new wave,” which emerged in the late 1980s. Made for around $350,000 and grossing more than $6 million worldwide, Mermaids became one of the most profitable Canadian films ever made. Its success helped legitimize the OFDC’s pursuit of artistic, auteurist cinem...
Prix de la Jeunesse, Cannes Film Festival (1987) Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role (Sheila McCarthy), Genie Awards(1988) Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role (Paule Baillargeon), Genie Awards (1988)
Starring: Ann-Marie MacDonald, John Evans, Paule Baillargeon, Richard Monette, Sheila McCarthy. Country: Canada Language: English. About the film: Patricia Rozema’s mesmerizing debut feature. Aspiring photographer Polly lands a job at a Toronto art gallery run by Gabrielle, who is also a painter.
A charming and whimsical story about a daydreamer with artistic aspirations, Patricia Rozema's fanciful character study follows an amateur photographer Polly (Sheila McCarthy) as she lands a temp...
- (16)
- Comedy, Drama, LGBTQ+
- R
Directed by Patricia Rozema. Isn’t life the strangest thing you’ve ever seen? Scatterbrained Polly gets a job as a secretary in Gabrielle’s art gallery. Polly aspires to be a professional photographer, and idolizes Gabrielle for her artistic ability.
