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Song of Granite
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Song of Granite, portraits the life of Joe Heaney, one of the most famous traditional Irish singers who has a great talent and a unique style that leads him to be the pioneer of the Irish music. It is also reflects his great explanation of music and song. His songs symbolizes fables, myth, and his life.
Song of Granite, portraits the life of Joe Heaney, one of the most famous traditional Irish singers who has a great talent and a unique style that leads him to be the pioneer of the Irish music. It is also reflects his great explanation of music and song. His songs symbolizes fables, myth, and his life.
Actors:
Peadar Cox,
Griogair Labhruidh,
Alain Goulem,
Zach Fraser,
Marcelo Arroyo,
Derek Carroll,
Leni Parker
Peadar Cox
Griogair Labhruidh
Alain Goulem
7 March 1966, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Zach Fraser
Marcelo Arroyo
Derek Carroll
Leni Parker
5 November 1966, New Brunswick, Canada
Director:
Pat Collins
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March 16, 2017
For an artist whose work in a proud and robust tradition carried a recognizable grace, Song of Granite is a stirring, solemn tribute.
December 27, 2017
... one of the most adventurous explorations in the field of the musical documentary. [Full review in Spanish]
December 12, 2017
An enchanting lyrical look at the life of the enigmatic legendary traditional sean nós singer Joe Heaney.
December 14, 2017
The director and co-writer Pat Collins does a superb job with this strange biopic of Joe Heaney, a sean nós singer who became a big name in American folk music.
December 15, 2017
The biographical details are of far less interest to Collins than the music, and the film will be a particular delight to lovers of Irish folk music, with its keening textures and melancholic tones.
November 14, 2017
Mr. Collins doesn't shed light on what makes his subject tick, and the arty shards never cohere.
November 22, 2017
If Andrei Tarkovsky had grown up in rural Ireland, he might have made a biographical cine-memoir as luminously beautiful as Song of Granite.
December 14, 2017
An elliptic, bracingly experimental feature told mostly in Gaelic.
November 15, 2017
This patient and luminous life-of-the-artist film freshens everything stale about its genre.
December 13, 2017
Director Pat Collins's approach to visual composition is more interesting in theory than practice.
November 14, 2017
There's a unifying purpose to this seemingly scattered approach, underlining the essential unknowability of a retiring figure who left principally his art as evidence of a jagged, unstable life.
December 07, 2017
More than the story of an individual, the film is a stirring tribute to endangered folk traditions.

