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Oct 27, 2000 · I Could Read the Sky: Directed by Nichola Bruce. With Dermot Healy, Stephen Rea, Brendan Coyle, Maria Doyle Kennedy. The film tells of the memories and feeling of loss of an Irish immigrant who eventually winds up doing construction work in the anonymous cities of England.
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- Drama
- Nichola Bruce
- 2000-10-27
I Could Read the Sky is a 1999 Irish film directed by Nichola Bruce. It is based upon a photographic novel by Timothy O'Grady and Steve Pyke, which concerns the Irish experience of emigration and exile. It has been described as an "innovative, melancholic, and deeply moving film".
An elderly Irish man (Dermot Healy) thinks about his life as he sits alone in a shabby room in London. He recalls his childhood along the Western Coast of Ireland, and then his days as a laborer as he moved to London from his native land.
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An old man living in a London bachelor apartment recalls growing up on the west coast of Ireland, his move to England, and the events that have shaped his life.
- Nichola Bruce, Maureen Hughes
- Dermot Healy
This impressionistic film about memory and nostalgia focuses on an elderly man (Dermot Healy) in London who is pondering his younger days in Ireland. He is raised in a rural area on the west...
- Drama
- Dermot Healy
- Nicola Bruce
Find trailers, reviews, synopsis, awards and cast information for I Could Read The Sky (1999) - Nicholas Bruce, Nichola Bruce on AllMovie - An elderly Irish man (Dermot Healy) thinks about…
Dec 8, 2019 · Nichola Bruce – I Could Read the Sky (1999) Adapted by Nichola Bruce from the acclaimed photographic novel by Timothy O’Grady and Steve Pyke. I Could Read the Sky is a haunting and lyrical film about identity, love, loss, and the isolation and loneliness of the immigrant.
