The Quiet Girl

Film details

Film TitleThe Quiet Girl
Suitability
Genre
Length94mins
Year2021
CountryIreland
DirectorColm Bairéad
ActorsCatherine Clinch, Carrie Crowley, Andrew Bennett
LanguageIrish Gaelic
AKAAn Cailín Ciúin
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RURAL IRELAND. 1981. A quiet, neglected girl is sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with foster parents for the summer. She blossoms in their care, but in this house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers o

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It is a jewel.

One of the most exquisitely realised films of the year.

Bairéad’s script, based on a short story by Claire Keegan, remains resolutely focused on the smaller end of the scale, the intimate, ordinary sorrows of loneliness and loss and coming of age.