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I've Heard the Mermaids Singing is a 1987 Canadian comedy-drama film written and directed by Patricia Rozema and starring Sheila McCarthy, Paule Baillargeon, and Ann-Marie MacDonald. It was the first English-language Canadian feature film to win an award at the Cannes Film Festival .
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.
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- Patricia Rozema
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‘I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each’ is one of the most famous lines from a poem filled with famous lines. T. S. Eliot’s ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ has been called, by the critic Christopher Ricks, the best first poem in a first volume of poems: it opened Eliot’s debut…
I've Heard the Mermaids Singing – Official Re-Release Trailer. Returning to theaters March 11, 2022. This charming, whimsical story about a waifish daydreamer with artistic aspirations...
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- Kino Lorber
Feb 7, 2006 · 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.
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...
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- Comedy, Drama, LGBTQ+
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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.
