Synopsis
A quiet, neglected girl is sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with relatives for the summer. She blossoms in their care, but in this house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one.
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Cast
- Catherine ClinchCáit
- Carrie CrowleyEibhlín
- Andrew BennettSeán
- Michael PatricDa
- Kate Nic ChonaonaighMam
- Joan SheehyÚna
- Tara FaughnanSorcha
- Neans Nic DhonnchaGráinne
- Eabha Ni ChonaolaAoife
- Carolyn BrackenThe Woman
Recommendations
- 100
The Guardian
This beautiful and compassionate film from first-time feature director Colm Bairéad, based on the novella Foster by Claire Keegan, is a child’s-eye look at our fallen world; already it feels to me like a classic. - 100
The Irish Times
The action is unsettling throughout. There is a pervasive sense of unspoken menace lurking just outside the frame (or somewhere in the near past or future). But it is also a celebration of uncomplicated human kindness. - 100
The Observer (UK)
It’s one of the most exquisitely realised films of the year. - 90
Little White Lies
It’s by addressing grief in its purest form that we empathise with the pain that can make us willing to open up again, pave over the cracks, and wound a broken heart. - 90
Screen Daily
The Quiet Girl is thoughtful, spiritual in its stillness but alive with the hum of the land and the emotions it guards. Editing by the experienced John Murphy finishes the work with a precision that also smoothes this rites of passage story. Certainly, this is a quiet film, but it speaks in high volumes. - 90
The New York Times
Although The Quiet Girl — Ireland’s entry for the best international feature Oscar — is not holiday fare, there may not be a movie more expressive of the season’s benevolent ethos than this hushed work about kith and kindness. - 80
The Hollywood Reporter
This is a work of unfailing restraint, which makes its stealth emotional heft all the more remarkable. - 80
Empire
It’s a simple but artfully effective debut feature from Irish filmmaker Colm Bairéad, with a remarkable, heartbreaking debut performance from Clinch, whose face betrays anxieties she doesn’t yet fully understand.
