The Quiet Girl

A Heartfelt, Beautifully Homespun Tale of a Lonely Irish Childhood

There are different types of quiet. There's the quiet of peace and serenity, and the quiet of repression and shame. There's the quiet of contented, absorbing work. And there's the quiet of fear, the kind of lonely silence a bullied child might retreat into when she hears the heavy tread of an impatient adult on the stairs, or the catcalling of other, brasher kids. Colm Bairéad's gentle, straightforward, largely Irish-language "The Quiet Girl" has an ear finely attuned to all those types of hush, and to the tender feelings they can contain. [...]

di Jessica Kiang, articolo completo (4605 caratteri spazi inclusi) su Variety 12 febbraio 2022