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      • On Rotten Tomatoes the film has a 97% approval rating based on reviews from 146 critics, with an average rating of 8.7/10. The website's consensus reads, "A remarkable debut for writer-director Colm Bairéad, The Quiet Girl offers a deceptively simple reminder that the smallest stories can leave a large emotional impact."
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  2. Feb 24, 2023 · Drama about a shy, wary young Irish girl has swept Ireland’s equivalent of the Academy Awards. It’s also one of the best movies of this year.

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  3. Feb 23, 2023 · 94 minutes ‧ PG-13 ‧ 2023. The nameless narrator of Claire Keegan’s award-winning 2015 short story Foster is a little girl, living in rural Ireland, sent to stay with relatives she’s never met while her mother has yet another baby. Too many mouths to feed already.

  4. Feb 13, 2022 · “The Quiet Girl” is set — with remarkable acuity thanks to Emma Lowney’s excellent production design — in an early ’80s rural Ireland that, but for the cars and the TV shows, does not look a...

  5. Dec 15, 2022 · For a beat, “The Quiet Girl” sounds an uneasy note. It won’t be the last time this luminous Irish drama — directed by Colm Bairead and based on Claire Keegan’s short story “Foster ...

    • What Happens at The End of ‘The Quiet Girl’?
    • ‘The Quiet Girl’ Alludes to A History of Abuse
    • Seán Is The Father Cáit Never Had
    • Cáit Helps The Kinsellas Confront Their Grief

    Throughout the summer spent with Seán and Eibhlín, Cáitcomes out of her shell, becoming more comfortable with herself and forming an intimate bond with her temporary guardians. Seán, while at firstwithdrawn and emotionally distant, soon treats Cáit like the daughter he never had. Near the end of the film, it’s revealed that Seán’s initial coldness ...

    In order to properly and fully unpack the film’s restrained ending, it’s important to first look at a crucial plot point that is only alluded to, rather than outright stated. Apart from the unnatural discomfort that Cáit shows around her father, there are a few other signs that hint at the sinister truth that Cáit has been abused, perhaps even sexu...

    Because of her father’s cruelty and abuse, Cáit has rejected him as a proper father figure. Through the abuse, as well as her mother’s general neglect, Cáit had become timid and reserved. She’d been cheated out ofthe unconditional love that a parent owes their child. Ironically, it’s only through Eibhlín and Seán (her mother's cousin and Eibhlín's ...

    With Seán accepting Cáit as a daughter figure, he also completes a crucial transformation. The emotional scars left by his son’s tragic death, while never able to vanish, are treated through Cáit’s presence. If his initial rejection of her came from a place of sensitivity, his push for her to buy her own clothes (rather than grotesquely wearing the...

  6. May 25, 2022 · The Quiet Girl is an artfully muted masterpiece. With his remarkable film about a timid child sent to live with relatives in rural Ireland, Colm Bairéad provides a study in wordless communication.

  7. Feb 24, 2023 · A withdrawn 9-year-old spends the summer with two distant relatives in this Oscar-nominated film. The Quiet Girl's main character may be unassuming, but there's nothing insignificant about this...

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