Quiet Girl
A genuine work of art...and one of the single most moving, heartfelt, and heartbreaking movies from any country in the last decade.
The Quiet Girl
Rural Ireland, 1981. Nine-year-old Cait is sent away from her overcrowded, dysfunctional family to live with foster parents for the summer. Quietly struggling at school and at home, she has learned to hide in plain sight from those around her. She blossoms in their care, but in this house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one painful truth.
Genre
Drama
Runtime
96
Language
Irish Gaelic,
English
Director
Colm Bairéad
Cast
Catherine Clinch,
Carrie Crowley,
Andrew Bennett,
Michael Patric,
Kate Nic Chonaonaigh,
Joan Sheehy
Awards:
Nominee, Best Foreign Language Film, Academy Awards
Nominee, FIPRESCI Prize ~ Best Foreign Language Film, Palm Springs International Film Festival
Nominee, Crystal Bear ~ Generation Kplus - Best Film, Berlin International Film Festival
MOREFEATURED REVIEW
David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter
Few films explore both the shelter and the solitude of silence with the eloquence of Colm Bairéad’s gently captivating Irish-language drama 'The Quiet Girl' ('An Cailín Ciúin'). While the neglected 9-year-old protagonist of the title disappears into the cracks of her overcrowded family household and ...
Played at
Monica Film Center 3.03.23 - 3.30.23
Glendale 3.10.23 - 4.04.23
Town Center 5 3.10.23 - 4.04.23
Claremont 5 3.10.23 - 3.23.23
NoHo 7 3.31.23 - 4.06.23
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