I've Heard the Mermaids Singing(1987)

Name: I've Heard the Mermaids Singing
Director: Patricia Rozema
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: Sep 11, 1987
Cast: Sheila McCarthy, Paule Baillargeon, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Richard Monette, John Evans

Miramax

R
Rated R for brief strong language
1h 21m
- Comedy
- Drama

Release Date: Sep 11, 1987 | Limited

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. When Gabrielle rekindles an old romantic relationship with the younger painter Mary, Polly becomes jealous,... Read all

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Original Release | Sep 11, 1987

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Director & Top Cast

Patricia Rozema
Director

Sheila McCarthy
Actor

Paule Baillargeon
Actor

Ann-Marie MacDonald
Actor

Richard Monette
Clive

John Evans
Warren

Brenda Kamino

Actor

Patricia Rozema

Actor

Technical Specifications

Sound Mix: Stereo

Other Details

Country of Origin: Canada

Language: English

Summaries

Storyline

— Mike Jones Polly Vandersma, an unsuccessful and somewhat talented photographer leads a solitary life in a Toronto apartment with her photos as the only décor and her bathroom-turned-darkroom as her one friend. She's neither self-absorbed or bleak, instead content within the fantastic visions she experiences when her image emerges in the developer. Her toothpaste factory job is a failure and she's a lousy typist, but life takes a turn when she lands a part-time secretarial job in a downtown art gallery working for the french curator Gabrielle, a woman as elegant, self-composed and concerned with "important art" as Polly is awkward, unsophisticated and dumbfounded by "gallery art." As a foil to Polly's innocent joy in the minutiae of the ordinary world, the failed artist Gabrielle is desperate to create "just one truly beautiful thing" before she dies. Polly's first person narration in this 1987 low budget film, juxtaposed with the director's view of her photographic antics, creates an insight into the odd world in which she's fallen a la a very modern day public radio program examining one's internal views and external outcomes. In the cross-hairs of Polly's and Gabrielle's lives, the film examines the age old ideas of what is love and art? What is talent and worth? — Grace Seidel

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I've Heard the Mermaids Singing(1987)

Current Showtimes

Director & Top Cast

Patricia Rozema

Sheila McCarthy

Paule Baillargeon

Ann-Marie MacDonald

Richard Monette

John Evans

Brenda Kamino

Patricia Rozema

Technical Specifications

Other Details

Summaries

Storyline

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