The movie revolves around the life story of the complex, and the great traditional Irish singer, Joe Heaney. His songs symbolize myth, fables, and his early life in the west of Orland. He is a talented person with a unique style that manages him to achieve a great success. Song of granite portraits Joe's life and a great explanation of music and song.
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.
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.
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.
