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Format:

Blu-ray Disc, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

I've heard the mermaids singing / directed by Patricia Rozema.

Publisher, Date:

New York, NY : Kino Lorber, [2022]

Description:

1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital

optical

video file

Blu-Ray

Summary:

It is an imaginatively absurd, magical realist story about a waifish daydreamer with artistic aspirations. In Patricia Rozema₂s fanciful character study, aspiring photographer Polly lands a job at a Toronto art gallery run by Gabrielle, who is also a painter. Polly is impressed with Gabrielle₂s paintings, but as Polly gets to know Gabrielle₂s lover Mary and becomes entangled in their lives, she realizes Gabrielle isn₂t exactly who she appears to be, and her world tilts off its axis. One of the first queer films that weren₂t only about queerness, I₂ve Heard the Mermaids Singing takes the viewer to the enchanted places inside Polly₂s mind while quietly assaulting the notion of authority everywhere. Winner of the Prix de la Jeunesse at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.

Target Audience Note:

Rating: R.

Subjects:

Art museums -- Employees -- Drama.

Art museum curators -- Drama.

Genre:

Feature films.

Fiction films.

Comedy films.

Other Author:

Rozema, Patricia, film director.

McCarthy, Sheila, actor.

Baillargeon, Paule, 1945- actor.

MacDonald, Ann-Marie, 1958- actor.

Kino Lorber, Inc., publisher.

Other Title:

I have heard the mermaids singing.

Container of (work): I've heard the mermaids singing (Motion picture)

Notes:

Title from web page.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1987.

Blu-ray extras: new audio commentary by director Patricia Rozema. Rozema's short films Passion: A letter in 16mm (1985), Desperanto, part of the 1991 anthology film Montreal Vu Par..., The shape I think (1995; introduction by director Patricia Rozema; q7a with Patricia Rozema; video essay by Daniel Kremer; trailer..

Sheila McCarthy, Paule Baillargeon, Ann-Marie MacDonald.

Blu-ray; requires Blu-ray player.

English or Arabic dialogue; English subtitles.

ISBN:

9786318836647 : BRHD

6318836640 : BRHD

Publisher Number:

K26018

Other Number:

1340124907

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

1003331

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# System items in:

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Call Number:

BLU MOVIE I've hea