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The Quiet Girl
Director: Colm Bairead 94 Minutes Cert: 12A
Ireland 2022
The Quiet Girl is, not unexpectedly, a quiet film. With dialogue almost entirely in Irish, a language still woefully underrepresented on screen, the film follows Cait, played by newcomer Catherine Clinch with a tiny whisper of a voice and hugely impressive understatement. She's a shy, sad schoolgirl in an unhappy family, sent away to spend the Summer with her mother's cousin; there, she's shown a simple, uncomplicated tenderness, forging a family of the kind she's clearly never experienced before. It's a simple, but artfully effective, debut feature from Irish filmmaker Colm Bairead, with a remarkable performance from Clinch, whose face betrays anxieties she doesn't fully understand.
The dialogue, when it comes, is gentle and lyrical. Bairead's screenplay (adapting a novella by Irish writer Claire Keegan) finds poetry in the shapes and contours of his native tongue. It's an obvious comfort to Cait. too; tellingly, the few English speakers in the film are characters she fears or struggles to trust, such as her belligerent, emotionally-inert father (Michael Patric).
This is a film full of people unable to express themselves, inner turmoil in different forms. Cait's parents are sad and unfulfilled. Cait herself struggles to make friends; and her foster parents, though much more open and loving, have a grief-filled history they are not sharing. It takes acts of mutual care and affection for any lines of communication to open.
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