Song of Granite
Having such a talent and the sweet voice with a unique style, Joe Heaney, one of the most great Irish traditional singers of all ages , manages him to be the pioneer of the Irish music. He symbolizes in his songs fables, myth, and his early life in the west of Ireland. He challenges many things in order to have his chance and achieving success.
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5 November 1966, New Brunswick, Canada
7 March 1966, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
1959 in Galway, Ireland
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.
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.
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 14, 2017
An elliptic, bracingly experimental feature told mostly in Gaelic.
December 27, 2017
... one of the most adventurous explorations in the field of the musical documentary. [Full review in Spanish]
December 07, 2017
More than the story of an individual, the film is a stirring tribute to endangered folk traditions.
November 15, 2017
This patient and luminous life-of-the-artist film freshens everything stale about its genre.
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.
December 12, 2017
An enchanting lyrical look at the life of the enigmatic legendary traditional sean nós singer Joe Heaney.
November 14, 2017
Mr. Collins doesn't shed light on what makes his subject tick, and the arty shards never cohere.
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.
