It's funny that the film spends so much time caught up in Joe Heaney's feelings of displacement, because it produces a similar sensation in viewers by forgoing the work of narrative and character development in favor of a stark, elliptical style that becomes tiresome.
Song of Granite
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Ireland, Canada (Quebec) · 2017
1h 44m
Director Pat Collins
Starring Macdara Ó Fátharta, Mícheál Ó Confhaola, Jaren Cerf, Pól Ó Ceannabháín
Genre Drama
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Folk singer Joe Heaney was born and raised in Ireland. After performing at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, he settled in New York, and went on to record 500 Irish folk songs throughout his life. Collecting fragments of music and memory, this film paints Heaney's portrait.
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What are critics saying?
The New York Times by Ben Kenigsberg
Mr. Collins doesn’t shed light on what makes his subject tick, and the arty shards never cohere.
Screen International by Fionnuala Halligan
Layering the life of Irish folk singer Joe Heaney through a flickering lens and leaning on the natural, unadorned voice of the sean nos [old style] singer, this doc/feature hybrid film isn’t perfect, but it is quite perfectly-made.
Pat Collins’ echoing, elegiac evocation of the spirit of Irish sean nós singer Joe Heaney is most interested in his haunted vocal gift, letting the troubled life that weathered it show through only in glimmers between the gorgeous songs.
Los Angeles Times by Sheri Linden
More than the story of an individual, the film is a stirring tribute to endangered folk traditions.
The Hollywood Reporter by Stephen Dalton
Collins has crafted a mesmerizing modernist memorial to ancient Celtic traditions, even if its determinedly slow pace and diffuse narrative will likely leave some viewers unsatisfied.
For an artist whose work in a proud and robust tradition carried a recognizable grace, Song of Granite is a stirring, solemn tribute.
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