I Could Read the Sky (1999)

Directed by

Nichola Bruce

Genre

drama

Country

Ireland

Runtime

1h 26m

Rating

4.6 of 10 from 11 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

This film follows an Irish man looking back on his life as a laborer in England. It uses photographs and narration to show his memories of leaving home and the loneliness of being far away.

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What happens

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". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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