Citation :
« Against mainstream cinema's positioning of women as passive objects of an aggressive male gaze, I've Heard the Mermaids Singing is a film that places female 'looking' at its centre. »
-- Brenda Austin-Smith

Source :
AUSTIN-SMITH, Brenda. « Gender Is Irrelevant: I've Heard the Mermaids Singing as Women's Cinema » , dans Canada's Best Features: Critical Essays on 15 Canadian Films, sous la direction de Eugene P. Walz, Amsterdam, Rodopi, 2002. [en anglais] (pp. 224-225)