The Quiet Girl (2022)
(An Cailín Ciúin)
Country: EIRE
Technical: col/1.33:1 94m
Director: Colm Bairéad
Cast: Catherine Clinch, Carrie Crowley, Andrew Bennett
Synopsis:
Sidelined by her family and fugitive from school, little Cáit is sent by her expectant mother to spend the summer on her cousin's farm in the west. Nurtured with love and attention, she thrives and doesn't want to come back.
Review:
An instant classic among films about childhood, this rare Irish language production is filmed in crystalline shallow focus and features a spellbinding performance from its young actress. The sense that she 'belongs' with this couple, who have lost their child, is beautifully pointed by so many subtle, visual details, and the equation of quietness with honesty is affectingly underlined by her final ambiguous 'Daddy'. One cavil: the use of subtitles for the Gaelic dialogue might usefully have been extended to the indecipherable mutterings elsewhere among the cast.
(An Cailín Ciúin)
Country: EIRE
Technical: col/1.33:1 94m
Director: Colm Bairéad
Cast: Catherine Clinch, Carrie Crowley, Andrew Bennett
Synopsis:
Sidelined by her family and fugitive from school, little Cáit is sent by her expectant mother to spend the summer on her cousin's farm in the west. Nurtured with love and attention, she thrives and doesn't want to come back.
Review:
An instant classic among films about childhood, this rare Irish language production is filmed in crystalline shallow focus and features a spellbinding performance from its young actress. The sense that she 'belongs' with this couple, who have lost their child, is beautifully pointed by so many subtle, visual details, and the equation of quietness with honesty is affectingly underlined by her final ambiguous 'Daddy'. One cavil: the use of subtitles for the Gaelic dialogue might usefully have been extended to the indecipherable mutterings elsewhere among the cast.
(An Cailín Ciúin)
Country: EIRE
Technical: col/1.33:1 94m
Director: Colm Bairéad
Cast: Catherine Clinch, Carrie Crowley, Andrew Bennett
Synopsis:
Sidelined by her family and fugitive from school, little Cáit is sent by her expectant mother to spend the summer on her cousin's farm in the west. Nurtured with love and attention, she thrives and doesn't want to come back.
Review:
An instant classic among films about childhood, this rare Irish language production is filmed in crystalline shallow focus and features a spellbinding performance from its young actress. The sense that she 'belongs' with this couple, who have lost their child, is beautifully pointed by so many subtle, visual details, and the equation of quietness with honesty is affectingly underlined by her final ambiguous 'Daddy'. One cavil: the use of subtitles for the Gaelic dialogue might usefully have been extended to the indecipherable mutterings elsewhere among the cast.