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Kelly Giles
U.S. Immigration Law Clerk, Reg. Canadian Immigration Consultant, Writer/Storyteller &Human Rts/Peace Activist-Freelance
hanging out with?#director?@colmbairead?&?#producer?@cleonanic?of the?#raw?, deeply?#moving?new?#film?@thequietgirlfilm?,?#ireland?'s entry for the best international film?#oscar?& based on the short story?#foster?by?#clairekeegan Winner?@Berlinale
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?Taipei, DIFF Best Irish Film, Audience Award, 7 IFTAs, Ireland’s Oscar Entry’23
One of the most exquisitely realised films of the year...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...Everything about The Quiet Girl lives up to Cait’s sobriquet, an elegantly balanced drama that weaponises the power of what’s not said...The Quiet Girl is a small gem of a film. The acting is excellent and the simple but affecting story, with its setting of a lush green and surprisingly sunny Ireland, packs an emotional wallop...This delicate heartbreaker of a film is wrapped around a deceptively simple premise...The director Colm Bairéad’s remarkable debut is invested with meaning, lyricism and life. The images sing but they also breathe...A coming-of-age tale with an unerring eye for detail, this seemingly familiar drama set in rural Ireland in 1981 is also quietly subversive...There is a pervasive sense of unspoken?#menace?lurking just outside the frame (or somewhere in the near past or future). But it is also a?#celebration?of uncomplicated human?#kindness?...A peaceful?#poem?of grief, sadness and learning to find your voice, told with?#empathy?and care by first-time feature filmmaker Colm Bairéad...It is a jewel...Bairéad’s script, based on a short story by?#clairekeegan?, remains resolutely focused on the smaller end of the scale, the?#intimate?, ordinary sorrows of loneliness and loss and coming of age...There's a heartfelt simplicity to the film's story, a rumination on grief's longevity and pain through the eyes of a child...An unexpectedly?#beautiful?assembly of narrative, image and sound which takes its cue from the title to build quietly to an emotional catharsis.