The Quiet Girl

Exquisite debut drama set in rural Ireland

It seems a modest little story at first, a cinematic wallflower content to cling to the corners of its tight, boxed-in aspect ratio, rather than thrust itself on to the audience. But while The Quiet Girl, Colm Bairéad's multi-award-winning Irish-language drama, might be small in scale, it's one of the most exquisitely realised films of the year. There's a kinship with Céline Sciamma's Petite Maman in the crystalline delicacy of the storytelling - an adaptation of Claire Keegan's acclaimed short story Foster - and the way it plays on the heartstrings like a harp. [...]

di Wendy Ide, articolo completo (1697 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Observer 14 maggio 2022