From 23 May 2023
The Quiet Girl
An Cailín Ciúin
Colm Bairéad / Ireland / 2022 / 95 min / Irish Gaelic, English / 13+
A quietly moving and sensitive coming-of-age story exploring issues of family, loneliness and grief through the eyes of its young protagonist. Filmed in the rarely heard Irish language, the film has delighted audiences and critics alike, winning numerous awards, including the Grand Prix in the Generation Kplus section at the Berlinale and an Oscar nomination.
cast Catherine Clinch, Carrie Crowley, Andrew Bennett, Michael Patric, Kate Nic Chonaonaigh
festivals, awards Oscar nominee for Best International Feature Film.
Rural Ireland, 1981. A quiet, neglected girl is sent away from her overcrowded, 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 senses there is an unspoken grief…
“Could be the best Irish film ever made.” – Irish Independent. “One of the single most moving, heartfelt, and heartbreaking movies from any country in the last decade. That only sounds like hyperbole until you see it. After that, the sentence reads as a huge understatement.”
– Rolling Stone
