THE QUIET GIRL
Rural Ireland. 1981. When 9-year-old Cait is sent to live with foster parents for the summer, she learns a new way of living and uncovers a painful truth.
SYNOPSIS
Rural Ireland. 1981. Cáit is a nine-year-old girl from an over-crowded, dysfunctional and impoverished family. Quietly struggling at school and at home, she has learnt to hide in plain sight from those around her.
As summer arrives and her pregnant mother’s due date approaches, Cáit (Catherine Clinch) is sent to live with distant relatives. Without knowing when she will return home, she is left at the strangers’ house with only the clothes she is wearing. The Kinsellas, a middle-aged couple she has never met, dress the girl in what clothes they have.
They are farming people, like her own, but hard-working and wanting for nothing, it seems. Despite a warm reception from the woman, Eibhlín (Carrie Crowley), the man of the house, Seán (Andrew Bennett), keeps his distance from Cáit and she from him, but over time, their strained relationship begins to deepen. Slowly, in the care of the Kinsellas, Cáit blossoms and discovers a new way of living. But in this house where affection grows and there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one painful truth.
Director
Colm Bairead
WITH
Catherine Clinch, Carrie Crowley, Andrew Bennett, Michael Patric, Kate Nic Chonaonaigh, Carolyn Bracken
Run Time
1 hour, 34 minutes
Released
December 16, 2022
Distributed by
Neon
HEARING AND VISUAL ASSISTANCE
Assisted Listening
Subtitled / Open Captions
Country
Ireland
SUBTITLES
Irish and English with English Subtitles
RATED PG-13
for smoking, some strong language
SHOWINGS
MAR 17 | FRI
5:15, 7:15, 9:20 p.m.
MAR 18 | SAT
1:05, 3:10, 5:15, 7:15, 9:20 p.m
MAR 19 | SUN
5:15, 7:15, 9:20 p.m.
MAR 20 | MON
5:15, 7:15, 9:20 p.m.
MAR 21 | TUE
5:15, 7:15, 9:20 p.m.
MAR 22 | WED
5:15, 7:15, 9:20 p.m.
MAR 23 | THU
5:15, 7:15, 9:20 p.m.
MAR 24 | FRI
5:10, 7:15, 9:20 p.m.
MAR 25 | SAT
1:00, 3:05, 5:10, 7:15, 9:20 p.m.
MAR 26 | SUN
1:00, 3:05, 5:10, 7:15, 9:20 p.m.
MAR 27 | MON
5:10, 7:15, 9:20 p.m.
MAR 28 | TUE
5:10, 7:15, 9:20 p.m.
MAR 29 | WED
5:10, 7:15, 9:20 p.m.
MAR 30 | THU
5:10, 7:15, 9:20 p.m.
Reviews
“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.”
“A genuine work of art by a genuinely empathetic artist, and 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.”
“There may not be a movie more expressive of the season’s benevolent ethos than this hushed work about kith and kindness.”