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Critic Steven Scaife
rated 8

...earns its most emotionally powerful scenes because of the way that it so gracefully convinces us that it wasn’t even building toward them in the first place.

Read full review at Slant Magazine
Critic John Nugent
rated 8

The film is low on incident, but generous to its characters and invigoratingly sweet.

Read full review at Empire
Critic Wendy Ide
rated 10

...exquisite debut drama set in rural Ireland.

Read full review at The Guardian
Critic Alicia Haddick
rated 8

There’s a heartfelt simplicity to the film’s story, a rumination on grief’s longevity and pain through the eyes of a child.

Read full review at Little White Lies
Critic Richard Whittaker
rated 8

It's an extraordinary, tiny, intimate, and deeply touching story of a childhood suddenly filled with that most fragile of gifts: hope.

Read full review at The Austin Chronicle
Ronny Svensson
rated 9

Hjärtskärande vacker och gripande om en liten flickas känslomässiga uppvaknande under en sommar som blir ett minne för livet. Sparsmakad dialog på gaeliska och tillsammans med Close och Banshees bildar den en prispall som är svår att tippa omkull…

1 year ago
Critic Emma Gray Munthe
rated 8

...det är så väldigt vackert berättat om vad kärlek – och bristen på den – kan göra med ett barn.

Read full review at Aftonbladet

Cast & Crew

Colm Bairéad
Director
Andrew Bennett
As Seán
Carrie Crowley
As Eibhlín
Joan Sheehy
As Úna
Carolyn Bracken
As The Woman

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What is The Quiet Girl about? Toggle content

In the summer of 1981, a quiet and neglected nine-year-old girl named Cáit is sent to live with distant relatives on their farm in rural Ireland. She struggles to adapt to her new surroundings but finds solace in the warmth and kindness of her foster mother Eibhlín. As she slowly opens up to her new family, Cáit uncovers a deep secret that threatens to shatter her fragile sense of belonging. Despite this revelation, she learns to embrace her new home and find affection in unexpected places.

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Some movies that have similar genres and were produced around the same time as The Quiet Girl include The Whale, The Florida Project, The Banker, Close, Aftersun, The Fallout.

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The Quiet Girl was released in theaters on September 8, 2022.