Review: Director Colm Bairéad’s tender, laconic film 'The Quiet Girl' focuses on a girl in the early 1980s who is sent to live with her mother’s cousin
Ireland’s lovely and transfixing “The Quiet Girl” has the feel of one of those gemlike short stories, long associated with the New Yorker, in which nothing much happens on the surface but crystalline realizations result from ordinary acts.
The title figure in the picture, told almost entirely in the Irish language, is 9-year-old Cáit, played with an otherworldly gravity by Catherine Clinch as an outcast even within her own home on a struggling small farm. It’s 1981 Ireland, a time and place in which even the middle class live in circumstances that today would strike us as notably lacking, with clunky-looking cars and careworn home furnishings.
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