Polly (Sheila McCarthy) is a dreamy and awkward loner who gets tangled up in love, art, and deception while temping at a highbrow art gallery.
Premiering at Cannes and celebrated with some of Canada’s highest film honors, I’VE HEARD THE MERMAIDS SINGING is a luminous gem of queer cinema and a defining work of the Toronto New Wave.
“The point I wanted to make (not least to myself) can be stated most simply as ‘trust yourself.’ I wanted to reaffirm and celebrate my belief that, as whoever it was said ‘we do not see things as they are but as we are.’ I wanted to make a warm-spirited anti-authority film. But most of all I wanted to make a film with Polly in it, one where she and I get to hear the mermaids singing.” —Filmmaker Patricia Rozema
Premiering at Cannes and celebrated with some of Canada’s highest film honors, I’VE HEARD THE MERMAIDS SINGING is a luminous gem of queer cinema and a defining work of the Toronto New Wave.
“The point I wanted to make (not least to myself) can be stated most simply as ‘trust yourself.’ I wanted to reaffirm and celebrate my belief that, as whoever it was said ‘we do not see things as they are but as we are.’ I wanted to make a warm-spirited anti-authority film. But most of all I wanted to make a film with Polly in it, one where she and I get to hear the mermaids singing.” —Filmmaker Patricia Rozema
Director: Patricia Rozema
Run time: 81 mins
Format: Digital
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