With an unprecedented number of Oscar nominations for Irish talent and films this year, everyone was celebrating the green wave at the 17th annual Oscar Wilde Awards, held Thursday night — before the rain arrived — at Bad Robot in Santa Monica. “It’s amazing, there are 7 million people on that island, and all of them were nominated and are here tonight,” host J.J. Abrams joked, in a year when 25 percent of the Academy Award acting nominations are held by Irish actors.
The Oscar Wilde honorees this year were Irish actresses Kerry Condon (The Banshees of Inisherin), Jessie Buckley (Women Talking), Eve Hewson (Flora and Son) and An Cailίn Ciúin (The Quiet Girl), the first Irish language film nominated for an Academy Award. Created by the US-Ireland Alliance, the Oscar Wilde Awards celebrate the work of those from Ireland — and some who are not — who contribute to the movies, television and music.
The Oscar Wilde honorees this year were Irish actresses Kerry Condon (The Banshees of Inisherin), Jessie Buckley (Women Talking), Eve Hewson (Flora and Son) and An Cailίn Ciúin (The Quiet Girl), the first Irish language film nominated for an Academy Award. Created by the US-Ireland Alliance, the Oscar Wilde Awards celebrate the work of those from Ireland — and some who are not — who contribute to the movies, television and music.
- 3/10/2023
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Most film fans know that this Sunday, just hours away, is the big award night. As a beloved former late-night talk show host used to see, even after he hosted the event, “In Hollywood, Oscar is king.” So, who’s going to wear that crown? While all the chatter is about the actors vying for the prize along with the ten (!) Best Picture contenders, this Friday we’ll get a chance to see a Best International Feature nominee that seems to be under everyone’s “radar”. But then, it’s a truly “soft-spoken” story, much like its subject. But don’t be fooled because the emotion is loud. much like its heartbeat, in The Quiet Girl.
And that tile character is nine-year-old Cait (Catherine Clinch) part of an ever-expanding family (another arrives soon) living in a ramshackle house in the mud of 1981 Ireland. She’s teased by her sisters, as...
And that tile character is nine-year-old Cait (Catherine Clinch) part of an ever-expanding family (another arrives soon) living in a ramshackle house in the mud of 1981 Ireland. She’s teased by her sisters, as...
- 3/10/2023
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
We will update these predictions throughout awards season, so keep checking IndieWire for all our 2023 Oscar picks. Final voting is March 2 through 7, 2023. The 95th Oscars telecast will be broadcast on Sunday, March 12 and air live on ABC at 8:00 p.m. Et/ 5:00 p.m. Pt.
Eric Kohn and Anne Thompson are collaborating on predictions updates for this category. See Thompson’s preliminary thoughts for what to expect at the 95th Academy Awards here and earlier predictions for this category here.
The State of the Race
When Oscar nominations were announced in January, “All Quiet on the Western Front” was the obvious frontrunner. Director Edward Berger’s war epic, the first German-language adaptation of the 1928 novel, projected strength across eight additional categories, including Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, and other crafts. While it remains to be seen if it will win any of those, that level of support...
Eric Kohn and Anne Thompson are collaborating on predictions updates for this category. See Thompson’s preliminary thoughts for what to expect at the 95th Academy Awards here and earlier predictions for this category here.
The State of the Race
When Oscar nominations were announced in January, “All Quiet on the Western Front” was the obvious frontrunner. Director Edward Berger’s war epic, the first German-language adaptation of the 1928 novel, projected strength across eight additional categories, including Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, and other crafts. While it remains to be seen if it will win any of those, that level of support...
- 3/7/2023
- by Anne Thompson and Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Super Ltd presents Best International Feature Oscar nominee The Quiet Girl and, as the Academy Awards approach, Rrr ramps up again and Navalny returns to theaters for one-week run.
Also opening, Aaron Eckhart in Ambush, Charlotte Rampling in Juniper and comedian Jim Gaffigan as the host of a failing children’s science TV show in Linoleum. Roadside Attractions presents My Happy Ending, IFC debuts God’s Time and Netflix premieres Idris Elba in film spinoff Luther: The Fallen Son.
Bunker, produced by Blue Fox Entertainment founder James Huntsman and written by his son Michael Huntsman opens on 225+ screens, Montana-based indie The Year Of The Dog, whose director sold his condo to finance the production, debuts on over 100.
Oscar noms: Drama The Quiet Girl, written and directed by Colm Bairéad and starring Catherine Clinch, Carrie Crowley and Andrew Bennett, opens in six locations in NY, LA, San Francisco and Chicago. In rural...
Also opening, Aaron Eckhart in Ambush, Charlotte Rampling in Juniper and comedian Jim Gaffigan as the host of a failing children’s science TV show in Linoleum. Roadside Attractions presents My Happy Ending, IFC debuts God’s Time and Netflix premieres Idris Elba in film spinoff Luther: The Fallen Son.
Bunker, produced by Blue Fox Entertainment founder James Huntsman and written by his son Michael Huntsman opens on 225+ screens, Montana-based indie The Year Of The Dog, whose director sold his condo to finance the production, debuts on over 100.
Oscar noms: Drama The Quiet Girl, written and directed by Colm Bairéad and starring Catherine Clinch, Carrie Crowley and Andrew Bennett, opens in six locations in NY, LA, San Francisco and Chicago. In rural...
- 2/24/2023
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
The girl is named Cáit. She’s 12 years old, doesn’t like attention, stays hidden and silent when she can. Living in the rural Irish countryside in the early 1980s, she’s the youngest of a brood belonging to parents that seem one perpetually short fuse away from exploding. Or rather, she was the youngest — her Ma is six months pregnant. As for her Da, he’s a largely absent, mostly glowering presence capable of inspiring a dread-inducing hush into the household upon entering. Even when he brings Cáit with him to a pub,...
- 2/24/2023
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
When the 2023 BAFTA nominations were unveiled on Jan. 19, one of the main talking points — alongside the standout success of All Quiet on the Western Front — was the domination of Ireland.
The 10 nominations amassed by Martin McDonagh’s awards season favorite The Banshees of Inisherin included a clean sweep of the performance categories, with the film’s four main cast — Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Kerry Condon and Barry Keoghan — all finding slots. With Aftersun’s Paul Mescal and Good to You, Leo Grande’s Daryl McCormack (also a Rising Star nominee) joining Farrell on the leading actor shortlist, BAFTA CEO Jane Millichip noted on the day that half of the category was Irish (“Although it wasn’t one of our targets,” she told THR).
Away from the headlines, The Quiet Girl — the much-adored Irish-language drama — continued its remarkable rise, with not just a nomination for Film Not in the English Language,...
The 10 nominations amassed by Martin McDonagh’s awards season favorite The Banshees of Inisherin included a clean sweep of the performance categories, with the film’s four main cast — Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Kerry Condon and Barry Keoghan — all finding slots. With Aftersun’s Paul Mescal and Good to You, Leo Grande’s Daryl McCormack (also a Rising Star nominee) joining Farrell on the leading actor shortlist, BAFTA CEO Jane Millichip noted on the day that half of the category was Irish (“Although it wasn’t one of our targets,” she told THR).
Away from the headlines, The Quiet Girl — the much-adored Irish-language drama — continued its remarkable rise, with not just a nomination for Film Not in the English Language,...
- 2/19/2023
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Colm Bairéad’s appearance at Deadline’s Contenders: The Nominees event marks a year since his film The Quiet Girl first debuted at the Berlin Film Festival. A dual release in the UK and Ireland followed in May, and a slow international rollout has kept the director busy ever since. Indeed, as the film’s Oscar campaign enters the final stretch, The Quiet Girl is only now going wide across America: not bad going for a film with no stars that’s shot almost entirely in Irish, a language spoken by fewer than 2 million people worldwide.
The story of a shy and sensitive pre-teen girl who is sent to live with relatives after she becomes too much of a burden to her parents, who are expecting another child, The Quiet Girl is adapted from Claire Keegan’s novella Foster, which Bairéad discovered, quite by chance, in 2018.
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The story of a shy and sensitive pre-teen girl who is sent to live with relatives after she becomes too much of a burden to her parents, who are expecting another child, The Quiet Girl is adapted from Claire Keegan’s novella Foster, which Bairéad discovered, quite by chance, in 2018.
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- 2/18/2023
- by Damon Wise
- Deadline Film + TV
Top Marvel Studios executive Victoria Alonso felt it was important to get behind Santiago Mitre’s film “Argentina 1985” because the story is a reminder, “that if we don’t create a memory with our art, chances are this will happen again.”
Alonso was speaking as part of Variety’s FYC Fest: The Producers. She was joined by fellow producers Malte Grunert of “All Quiet on the Western Front” and Cleona Ní Chrualaoí from “The Quiet Girl.”
“Argentina 1985” focuses on the true story of how a public prosecutor, a young lawyer and their legal team set out to prosecute the heads of Argentina’s bloody military dictatorship. “This was an important legacy to do beyond the fact that it is about your everyday superheroes,” Alonso said.
Speaking to the importance of why it was necessary to tell the story of “All Quiet of the Western Front,” the World War...
Alonso was speaking as part of Variety’s FYC Fest: The Producers. She was joined by fellow producers Malte Grunert of “All Quiet on the Western Front” and Cleona Ní Chrualaoí from “The Quiet Girl.”
“Argentina 1985” focuses on the true story of how a public prosecutor, a young lawyer and their legal team set out to prosecute the heads of Argentina’s bloody military dictatorship. “This was an important legacy to do beyond the fact that it is about your everyday superheroes,” Alonso said.
Speaking to the importance of why it was necessary to tell the story of “All Quiet of the Western Front,” the World War...
- 2/16/2023
- by Jazz Tangcay and Julia MacCary
- Variety Film + TV
The 43rd annual London Critics’ Circle Film Awards was a well-attended affair that crowned the provocative culture war drama “Tár” as the Film of the Year on Sunday.
“Tár” won three major awards, with Todd Field named Director of the Year and Cate Blanchett Actress of the Year. Blanchett is no stranger to this award, having won it previously in 1998 for “Elizabeth” and in 2013 for “Blue Jasmine”.
“‘Tár’ is about female experience, but it’s also beyond female experience. It’s really, really complicated and you’ve made room for that complication,” Blanchett said during her acceptance speech. “Personally, it was the most freewheeling, free form, free flowing, exhilarating, challenging and creatively dangerous film set that I’ve ever been on. And it was full of ambiguity and the stuff that we as a species, find so hard to unpack and discuss and and pin down, not only the stuff...
“Tár” won three major awards, with Todd Field named Director of the Year and Cate Blanchett Actress of the Year. Blanchett is no stranger to this award, having won it previously in 1998 for “Elizabeth” and in 2013 for “Blue Jasmine”.
“‘Tár’ is about female experience, but it’s also beyond female experience. It’s really, really complicated and you’ve made room for that complication,” Blanchett said during her acceptance speech. “Personally, it was the most freewheeling, free form, free flowing, exhilarating, challenging and creatively dangerous film set that I’ve ever been on. And it was full of ambiguity and the stuff that we as a species, find so hard to unpack and discuss and and pin down, not only the stuff...
- 2/5/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Ireland has received its first nomination for the best international feature Oscar for The Quiet Girl.
Overall, movies from 92 countries and regions were eligible for this year’s Academy Awards in the best international feature category, including some that have never earned a nomination before. But once the shortlist of 15 remaining titles was cut down to the five Oscar nominees, unveiled on Tuesday morning, only one country could celebrate earning its first-ever nod in the category.
Among the shortlisted countries, three had never been nominated for the best international feature honor, which was previously called the best foreign-language film Oscar. They were Morocco (with its submission The Blue Caftan) and Ireland, each of which had made the shortlist once before, as well as Pakistan (Joyland), which had not reached the shortlist before.
Ireland’s contender The Quiet Girl, writer-director Colm Bairéad’s first feature, focuses on a withdrawn child peeking...
Overall, movies from 92 countries and regions were eligible for this year’s Academy Awards in the best international feature category, including some that have never earned a nomination before. But once the shortlist of 15 remaining titles was cut down to the five Oscar nominees, unveiled on Tuesday morning, only one country could celebrate earning its first-ever nod in the category.
Among the shortlisted countries, three had never been nominated for the best international feature honor, which was previously called the best foreign-language film Oscar. They were Morocco (with its submission The Blue Caftan) and Ireland, each of which had made the shortlist once before, as well as Pakistan (Joyland), which had not reached the shortlist before.
Ireland’s contender The Quiet Girl, writer-director Colm Bairéad’s first feature, focuses on a withdrawn child peeking...
- 1/24/2023
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Hollywood Reporter’s first panel of international directors at this year’s Palm Springs Film Festival features movies with atypical lead actors. Jerzy Skolimowski’s Eo, starring several camera-ready Sardinian donkeys, stands out as perhaps the most unlikely casting choice. Projects such as Pan Nalin’s The Last Film Show and Colm Bairéad’s The Quiet Girl both feature young child actors in lead roles, which necessitated extensive nationwide talent scouting and rigid scheduling to accommodate child labor laws.
The breadth of different tones and kinds of stories included in these Oscar-shortlisted international films is evidenced by the varying genres represented on the panel: Tarik Saleh’s Cairo Conspiracy is a thriller centering around the eponymous Egyptian city’s religious and political elites. Joyland, Saim Sadiq’s feature debut, is a family drama that tackles issues of gender, sexuality and lineage. And Ali Abbasi’s Holy Spider is based...
The breadth of different tones and kinds of stories included in these Oscar-shortlisted international films is evidenced by the varying genres represented on the panel: Tarik Saleh’s Cairo Conspiracy is a thriller centering around the eponymous Egyptian city’s religious and political elites. Joyland, Saim Sadiq’s feature debut, is a family drama that tackles issues of gender, sexuality and lineage. And Ali Abbasi’s Holy Spider is based...
- 1/13/2023
- by Hilton Dresden
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In the race to the Oscars finish line, a film’s momentum is often key. For The Quiet Girl — Ireland’s entry for best international feature — the momentum it has already been building over the past year has been nothing short of extraordinary. Based on the novella Foster by Booker Prize-nominated author Claire Keegan, the directorial debut of writer-director Colm Bairéad and his producer (and wife), Cleona Ní Chrualaoí, follows a neglected and withdrawn 9-year-old girl (newcomer Catherine Clinch) sent to live over the summer of 1981 with relatives on a farm, where she experiences being part of a loving family for the very first time.
After premiering in February in Berlin, The Quiet Girl dominated Ireland’s main film and TV awards, the IFTAs, beating Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast to the top prizes, before smashing box office records for an Irish-language feature in the local box office. Amid growing critical...
After premiering in February in Berlin, The Quiet Girl dominated Ireland’s main film and TV awards, the IFTAs, beating Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast to the top prizes, before smashing box office records for an Irish-language feature in the local box office. Amid growing critical...
- 1/13/2023
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Recently shortlisted as a contender for Best International Feature at the 95th Academy Awards, “The Quiet Girl” has been receiving loud cheers from critics worldwide. The Irish-language film directed by Colm Bairéad holds an impressive score of 98 on Rotten Tomatoes, with the consensus saying, “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.”
Set in rural Ireland in 1981, a quiet, neglected girl named Cáit (Catherine Clinch) is sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with foster parents for the summer. She blossoms in their care, but in this house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one. The film was initially released stateside in New York and Los Angeles on December 16. Read our review roundup below.
See Colm Bairéad (‘The Quiet Girl’ director) on Irish language and ‘speaking to the...
Set in rural Ireland in 1981, a quiet, neglected girl named Cáit (Catherine Clinch) is sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with foster parents for the summer. She blossoms in their care, but in this house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one. The film was initially released stateside in New York and Los Angeles on December 16. Read our review roundup below.
See Colm Bairéad (‘The Quiet Girl’ director) on Irish language and ‘speaking to the...
- 1/13/2023
- by Vincent Mandile
- Gold Derby
It is the core of fairy tales, ancient and true, that wounds can heal, that change is possible, that goodwill and benevolence and honesty can lead the way to preternatural recovery. And sometimes a gate that needs to be opened and closed is all that stands between doom and a happily ever after - that is if you are well-prepared and up to speed to take on the challenge.
Colm Bairéad’s superb first feature, The Quiet Girl, is one of the best films of the year. Based on Claire Keegan’s story, Foster, it tells the tale of Cait (magnificent newcomer Catherine Clinch), a young girl in the rural Ireland of about 40 years ago, whose large family sends her off to distant relatives (Carrie Crowley and Andrew Bennett as the Cinnsealachs), virtual strangers, to spend the summer while...
Colm Bairéad’s superb first feature, The Quiet Girl, is one of the best films of the year. Based on Claire Keegan’s story, Foster, it tells the tale of Cait (magnificent newcomer Catherine Clinch), a young girl in the rural Ireland of about 40 years ago, whose large family sends her off to distant relatives (Carrie Crowley and Andrew Bennett as the Cinnsealachs), virtual strangers, to spend the summer while...
- 1/13/2023
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
For the last three years, the winner of the International Oscar has pretty much been a given: First came Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite, then Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round, and then Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car — all anointed by Cannes and eased to the finish line after prominent festival play in the usual cosmopolitan areas.
This year’s shortlist, however, paints 2022 as being far from such a one-horse race. True, the supremacy of Cannes as the foreign-language kingmaker is unchallenged, having berthed nine of the 15 contenders, and it’s worth wondering whether Triangle of Sadness would be the film to beat had its director, Sweden’s Ruben Östlund, filmed it in his native tongue. And, yes, once again, the field is overwhelmingly male, with just three female-directed titles — Morocco’s The Blue Caftan, France’s Saint Omer and Austria’s Corsage — vying with heavyweights like Park Chan-wook (South Korea...
This year’s shortlist, however, paints 2022 as being far from such a one-horse race. True, the supremacy of Cannes as the foreign-language kingmaker is unchallenged, having berthed nine of the 15 contenders, and it’s worth wondering whether Triangle of Sadness would be the film to beat had its director, Sweden’s Ruben Östlund, filmed it in his native tongue. And, yes, once again, the field is overwhelmingly male, with just three female-directed titles — Morocco’s The Blue Caftan, France’s Saint Omer and Austria’s Corsage — vying with heavyweights like Park Chan-wook (South Korea...
- 1/11/2023
- by Damon Wise
- Deadline Film + TV
Martin McDonagh’s tragicomedy The Banshees Of Inisherin leads this year’s London Film Critics Circle nominations with nine nods, followed by Charlotte Wells’ acclaimed debut Aftersun, which nabbed eight nominations.
Both films clocked nominations for Film of the Year, British/Irish Film of The Year, Director of the Year, and Screenwriter of the Year. The two films also clocked multiple acting noms, with Paul Mescal picking up a Best Actor nod for his role in Aftersun. Frankie Corio, who plays his daughter in the pic, is nominated for Young British/Irish performer. Banshees stars Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson are nominated for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor respectively.
Elsewhere, Todd Field’s high-art drama Tár and Everything Everywhere All at Once by The Daniels both scored six nominations. The Best Foreign Language category features five pics, including the Irish-language drama The Quiet Girl and Alice Diop’s fiction debut Saint Omer.
Both films clocked nominations for Film of the Year, British/Irish Film of The Year, Director of the Year, and Screenwriter of the Year. The two films also clocked multiple acting noms, with Paul Mescal picking up a Best Actor nod for his role in Aftersun. Frankie Corio, who plays his daughter in the pic, is nominated for Young British/Irish performer. Banshees stars Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson are nominated for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor respectively.
Elsewhere, Todd Field’s high-art drama Tár and Everything Everywhere All at Once by The Daniels both scored six nominations. The Best Foreign Language category features five pics, including the Irish-language drama The Quiet Girl and Alice Diop’s fiction debut Saint Omer.
- 12/22/2022
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Martin McDonagh’s “The Banshees of Inisherin” led the nominations at the 43rd annual London Critics’ Circle Film Awards with nine nods, with Charlotte Wells’ “Aftersun” close behind with eight.
Both films were nominated in the film of the year, director of the year and screenwriter of the year categories, as were Todd Field’s “Tár” and Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” both of which achieved six nominations. Sebastian Lelio’s “The Wonder” also scored six nominations.
Competing in the foreign language category will be “The Quiet Girl,” “Decision to Leave,” “Saint Omer,” “Eo” and “Rrr.”
The awards are given by the 200-member film section of the Critics’ Circle, the U.K.’s longest-standing critics’ organization. The winners will be announced at London’s The May Fair Hotel on Feb. 5, 2023.
“As always, our nominees stand out from others because our members actually see all of...
Both films were nominated in the film of the year, director of the year and screenwriter of the year categories, as were Todd Field’s “Tár” and Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” both of which achieved six nominations. Sebastian Lelio’s “The Wonder” also scored six nominations.
Competing in the foreign language category will be “The Quiet Girl,” “Decision to Leave,” “Saint Omer,” “Eo” and “Rrr.”
The awards are given by the 200-member film section of the Critics’ Circle, the U.K.’s longest-standing critics’ organization. The winners will be announced at London’s The May Fair Hotel on Feb. 5, 2023.
“As always, our nominees stand out from others because our members actually see all of...
- 12/22/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Martin McDonagh’s dark comedy has nine nominations, while Charlotte Wells’ ’Aftersun’ has eight.
Martin McDonagh’s dark comedy The Banshees Of Inisherin has received the most nominations for the 43rd London Critics’ Circle Film Awards, with nine, including film of the year, director of the year and screenwriter of the year.
McDonagh last triumphed at the 2018 awards, with Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri winning three awards: best film, best actress for Frances McDormand and best screenwriter for McDonagh.
Scroll down for the full nominations list
The Banshees Of Inisherin stars Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, and follows the unravelling...
Martin McDonagh’s dark comedy The Banshees Of Inisherin has received the most nominations for the 43rd London Critics’ Circle Film Awards, with nine, including film of the year, director of the year and screenwriter of the year.
McDonagh last triumphed at the 2018 awards, with Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri winning three awards: best film, best actress for Frances McDormand and best screenwriter for McDonagh.
Scroll down for the full nominations list
The Banshees Of Inisherin stars Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, and follows the unravelling...
- 12/21/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
French author and now filmmaker Annie Ernaux is having a year. She was just awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize for literature. Her autobiographical L’Événement was adapted by director Audrey Diwan into the critically acclaimed Happening, released last spring. And this weekend, Kino Lorber presents her directorial debut, The Super 8 Years, at Film at Lincoln Center and Dctv Firehouse in NYC, expanding to LA and select markets through January.
The Super 8 Years, a visual extension of Ernaux’s decades-long literary quest to distill the past and future, is culled from home movies taken between 1972 and 1981, after her husband Philippe acquired an 8mm camera that became a family fixture. The film, a collaboration with her son David Ernaux-Briot, had its world premiere at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight and screened at Busan, Rome, New York and Zurich Film Festivals. It’s a range of times and places, from holidays and family events in suburban France to trips in Albania,...
The Super 8 Years, a visual extension of Ernaux’s decades-long literary quest to distill the past and future, is culled from home movies taken between 1972 and 1981, after her husband Philippe acquired an 8mm camera that became a family fixture. The film, a collaboration with her son David Ernaux-Briot, had its world premiere at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight and screened at Busan, Rome, New York and Zurich Film Festivals. It’s a range of times and places, from holidays and family events in suburban France to trips in Albania,...
- 12/16/2022
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
Often, when embarking on the recent Variety tradition that is this feature — designed to highlight some of the year’s best yet least-Oscar-likely performances — one particular turn will emerge as the poster child. A performance that, for many reasons, really ought to have a shot at Oscar but, being in a language other than English, has little chance. This year, that slot goes to Vicky Krieps who, in Marie Kreutzer’s “Corsage,” does not so much play Empress Elisabeth of Austria (a role previously defined by Romy Schneider in the saccharine “Sissi” trilogy) as entirely reimagine and reclaim her.
Rather like with Mads Mikkelsen in Thomas Vinterberg’s “Another Round,” Krieps has the kind of stateside profile that will help “Corsage” stay in the conversation for the best international feature film Oscar shortlist. But the odds of her getting an individual best actress nod remain far slimmer — a shame, given...
Rather like with Mads Mikkelsen in Thomas Vinterberg’s “Another Round,” Krieps has the kind of stateside profile that will help “Corsage” stay in the conversation for the best international feature film Oscar shortlist. But the odds of her getting an individual best actress nod remain far slimmer — a shame, given...
- 12/16/2022
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
There is enough material for a short film in “The Quiet Girl,” an adaptation of Claire Keegan’s story that marks the first narrative feature from director Colm Bairéad, who concentrates for long stretches on visual effects with light that soon start to feel repetitive and pictorial rather than illuminating of character or story.
We first see our main character, a young girl named Cáit (Catherine Clinch), hiding in the tall grass of a meadow as her parents call her name; the characters in “The Quiet Girl” mainly speak in Gaelic, and so there are subtitles even if they speak in English. When Cáit runs back home, we see a crying baby, and her mother upbraids her for coming into the house with mud on her shoes.
Bairéad and director of photography Kate McCullough (Hulu’s “Normal People”) emphasize Cáit’s alienation from her surroundings in their compositions, but they...
We first see our main character, a young girl named Cáit (Catherine Clinch), hiding in the tall grass of a meadow as her parents call her name; the characters in “The Quiet Girl” mainly speak in Gaelic, and so there are subtitles even if they speak in English. When Cáit runs back home, we see a crying baby, and her mother upbraids her for coming into the house with mud on her shoes.
Bairéad and director of photography Kate McCullough (Hulu’s “Normal People”) emphasize Cáit’s alienation from her surroundings in their compositions, but they...
- 12/15/2022
- by Dan Callahan
- The Wrap
Why do we have children? Cait’s Mam and Da would be hard-pressed to answer that, with a house full of sour teenage daughters, a toddler barely walking, another baby about to land and not enough money to pay a day laborer to bring in the hay. These are the kind of kids who go to school with no lunch.
With The Quiet Girl, Ireland’s entry for the Best International Feature Oscar, we are apparently in the late 1960s. As her family’s middle child, Cait (Catherine Clinch) has learned to be silently wary, lowering her eyes as she walks by the school bullies and fading into the back seat of her father’s car when he picks up his fancy woman in the middle of nowhere on a country road, snickering with her as they drive along with no one to see them. No one who counts, that is.
With The Quiet Girl, Ireland’s entry for the Best International Feature Oscar, we are apparently in the late 1960s. As her family’s middle child, Cait (Catherine Clinch) has learned to be silently wary, lowering her eyes as she walks by the school bullies and fading into the back seat of her father’s car when he picks up his fancy woman in the middle of nowhere on a country road, snickering with her as they drive along with no one to see them. No one who counts, that is.
- 12/14/2022
- by Stephanie Bunbury
- Deadline Film + TV
The Quiet Girl Review — The Quiet Girl (2022) Film Review, a movie written and directed by Colm Bairéad and starring Catherine Clinch, Carrie Crowley, Andrew Bennett, Michael Patric, Kate Nic Chonaonaigh, Carolyn Bracken and Joan Sheehy. Director Colm Bairéad’s affecting new movie, The Quiet Girl, is set in rural Ireland in 1981. This film [...]
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Continue reading: Film Review: The Quiet Girl (2022): Catherine Clinch’s Lead Role is Quietly Effective in a Very Moving Irish Film...
- 12/12/2022
- by Thomas Duffy
- Film-Book
A version of this interview with “The Quiet Girl” director Colm Bairéad first ran in the International Film issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine.
Based on a novella by Claire Keegan, “The Quiet Girl” is the understated story of Cáit, a young girl from a large family who is sent to spend the summer with a couple on a remote farm in an Irish-speaking area. The film is Ireland’s entry in the Oscars Best International Feature Film category, and director Colm Bairéad’s first narrative feature after a career of making documentaries.
Why choose this film for your first narrative feature?
I’ve done a lot of documentaries over the years, but having said that, my first love was always fiction filmmaking. I was always trying to get shorts made and trying to develop features and a TV series at one point. And I’ve always had a deep...
Based on a novella by Claire Keegan, “The Quiet Girl” is the understated story of Cáit, a young girl from a large family who is sent to spend the summer with a couple on a remote farm in an Irish-speaking area. The film is Ireland’s entry in the Oscars Best International Feature Film category, and director Colm Bairéad’s first narrative feature after a career of making documentaries.
Why choose this film for your first narrative feature?
I’ve done a lot of documentaries over the years, but having said that, my first love was always fiction filmmaking. I was always trying to get shorts made and trying to develop features and a TV series at one point. And I’ve always had a deep...
- 12/7/2022
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
In what has been the widest open Oscars’ international feature category race in years, countries that previously had not been dominant in the category have emerged as strong contenders.
For instance, Cambodia sent in Davy Chou’s “Return to Seoul,” which debuted at Cannes. The country has been nominated only once in this category, for 2013’s “The Missing Picture.” “Return to Seoul” follows an adoptee who makes a journey of discovery from France to her Korean birth home. Star Park Ji-min makes a striking debut. Before the end of 2022, the film would have played at more than 60 noted festivals and it has been picking up awards on the way.
“I think the unpredictability of the narration, resulting from the unpredictability of Freddie, the main character of the film, her force and anger, her vitality and self-destructiveness, and the amazing performance of Park Ji-min who interprets her, are something the academy voters could feel sensitive to,...
For instance, Cambodia sent in Davy Chou’s “Return to Seoul,” which debuted at Cannes. The country has been nominated only once in this category, for 2013’s “The Missing Picture.” “Return to Seoul” follows an adoptee who makes a journey of discovery from France to her Korean birth home. Star Park Ji-min makes a striking debut. Before the end of 2022, the film would have played at more than 60 noted festivals and it has been picking up awards on the way.
“I think the unpredictability of the narration, resulting from the unpredictability of Freddie, the main character of the film, her force and anger, her vitality and self-destructiveness, and the amazing performance of Park Ji-min who interprets her, are something the academy voters could feel sensitive to,...
- 12/7/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
The Quiet Girl (2022) Movie Trailer: Catherine Clinch Blossoms in Foster Care in Colm Bairéad’s Film
The Quiet Girl Trailer — Colm Bairéad‘s The Quiet Girl (2022) movie trailer has been released by Super Ltd. The Quiet Girl trailer stars Catherine Clinch, Carrie Crowley, Andrew Bennett, and Michael Patric. Crew Colm Bairéad wrote the screenplay for The Quiet Girl. Plot Synopsis The Quiet Girl‘s plot synopsis: based on the story “Foster” by Claire Keegan, [...]
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- 12/6/2022
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
"She says as much as she needs to say." Super Ltd has revealed an official US trailer for The Quiet Girl, a wonderful little Irish film that is opening in the US starting in February. The film is Ireland's official entry in the Best International Film category at the Oscars this year, and it will have a week qualifying run in the US in December. Set in rural Ireland 1981, the film introduces us to Cáit. She is a quiet, neglected girl who is sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with foster parents for the summer. She blossoms in their care, but in this house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one. This is really beautiful film because it's a rare film that shows us what it's like to be raised by and care for by a family that properly loves their children. It's nice...
- 12/5/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
“I was just blown away,” director Colm Bairéad says of seeing the first audition tape of Catherine Clinch, the young girl who takes on the lead role of Cáit in his Irish-language Oscar entry The Quiet Girl. “She just had this immediate understanding of this character as someone who had learned to push all of her emotions inward and had learned to hide in a sense, in plain sight.”
Based on the short story by Claire Keegan, The Quiet Girl is set in rural Ireland in 1981 and follows 9-year-old Cáit, who is sent away from her overcrowded and dysfunctional family to live with foster parents for the summer. Quietly struggling at school and at home, she has learned to hide in plain sight from those around her. She blossoms in the foster family’s care, but in this house, where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one painful truth.
Based on the short story by Claire Keegan, The Quiet Girl is set in rural Ireland in 1981 and follows 9-year-old Cáit, who is sent away from her overcrowded and dysfunctional family to live with foster parents for the summer. Quietly struggling at school and at home, she has learned to hide in plain sight from those around her. She blossoms in the foster family’s care, but in this house, where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one painful truth.
- 12/3/2022
- by Diana Lodderhose
- Deadline Film + TV
“It’s an honor to have been selected by the Irish Film and Television Academy,” says director Colm Bairéad, whose film “The Quiet Girl” has been selected as Ireland’s official entry for Best International Feature at the 95th Academy Awards. “We’re incredibly proud that this is not only an Irish film, but it’s also an Irish language film. Historically the Irish language has been underrepresented in Irish cinema. It’s the official language of Ireland, but it’s actually a minority language and it’s Unesco’s endangered languages list. We’re very proud to have a film that’s speaking to the world in our own native tongue.”
We talked with Bairéad as part of Gold Derby’s special “Meet the Experts” Q&a event with 2022/2023 awards contenders. Watch our exclusive video interview above.
“The Quiet Girl” takes place in rural Ireland in 1981. A quiet, neglected...
We talked with Bairéad as part of Gold Derby’s special “Meet the Experts” Q&a event with 2022/2023 awards contenders. Watch our exclusive video interview above.
“The Quiet Girl” takes place in rural Ireland in 1981. A quiet, neglected...
- 11/29/2022
- by Denton Davidson
- Gold Derby
In filming “The Quiet Girl,” the evocative 80s-set story of a mysterious child sent to live with distant relatives for the summer in rural Ireland, cinematographer Kate McCullough says she found her way by keeping herself open to the natural elements of the setting.
“When you arrive on a location, there’s lots to inspire you,” says McCullough, who filmed writer/director Colm Bairéad’s feature debut, an adaptation of Claire Keegan’s acclaimed 2010 short story “Foster,” screening at the Camerimage International Film Festival in the directors’ debuts competition.
The Berlinale prize-winning film, praised for its own quiet qualities and storytelling through minute details, unfolds with the arrival of 9-year-old Cáit at the home of distant, childless relatives – a plan devised to offer relief to Cáit’s own household, where too few morsels are in the larder for too many children.
The destination is a mystery to the child just...
“When you arrive on a location, there’s lots to inspire you,” says McCullough, who filmed writer/director Colm Bairéad’s feature debut, an adaptation of Claire Keegan’s acclaimed 2010 short story “Foster,” screening at the Camerimage International Film Festival in the directors’ debuts competition.
The Berlinale prize-winning film, praised for its own quiet qualities and storytelling through minute details, unfolds with the arrival of 9-year-old Cáit at the home of distant, childless relatives – a plan devised to offer relief to Cáit’s own household, where too few morsels are in the larder for too many children.
The destination is a mystery to the child just...
- 11/19/2022
- by Will Tizard
- Variety Film + TV
Click here to read the full article.
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 (An Cailín Ciúin). While the neglected 9-year-old protagonist of the title disappears into the cracks of her overcrowded family household and is dismissed as a slow learner at school, her perceptive intelligence flowers over a warming summer in the care of distant relatives. As the almost equally taciturn man who becomes a much-needed father figure to her notes in the introverted girl’s defense: “She says as much as she has to say.”
Comments like that one, colored by a kindness largely unspoken, infuse this expertly crafted film with stirring grace and sensitivity. Adapted by Bairéad — whose background is in television and documentaries — from Claire Keegan’s short story, Foster, this is a work of unfailing restraint, which...
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 (An Cailín Ciúin). While the neglected 9-year-old protagonist of the title disappears into the cracks of her overcrowded family household and is dismissed as a slow learner at school, her perceptive intelligence flowers over a warming summer in the care of distant relatives. As the almost equally taciturn man who becomes a much-needed father figure to her notes in the introverted girl’s defense: “She says as much as she has to say.”
Comments like that one, colored by a kindness largely unspoken, infuse this expertly crafted film with stirring grace and sensitivity. Adapted by Bairéad — whose background is in television and documentaries — from Claire Keegan’s short story, Foster, this is a work of unfailing restraint, which...
- 10/24/2022
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Irish feature has been picked up for France, the Middle East, Benelux, China and more.
Colm Bairéad’s The Quiet Girl has sold across the world for UK sales agent Bankside Films, with theatrical deals in territories including ASC Distribution for France, Front Row in the Middle East, Cinéart for Benelux and DDDream for China.
The Irish-language feature, which is Bairéad’s debut, has also sold in Eastern Europe (HBO pay-tv); Hungary (Mozinet); Indonesia (Pt Falcon); Taiwan (Hooray Films); South Korea (Choix Pictures); Spain: (La Aventura Cine); Turkey (Mars Productions); and Encore Inflight for airlines across the world, except UK,...
Colm Bairéad’s The Quiet Girl has sold across the world for UK sales agent Bankside Films, with theatrical deals in territories including ASC Distribution for France, Front Row in the Middle East, Cinéart for Benelux and DDDream for China.
The Irish-language feature, which is Bairéad’s debut, has also sold in Eastern Europe (HBO pay-tv); Hungary (Mozinet); Indonesia (Pt Falcon); Taiwan (Hooray Films); South Korea (Choix Pictures); Spain: (La Aventura Cine); Turkey (Mars Productions); and Encore Inflight for airlines across the world, except UK,...
- 10/18/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
How ‘The Quiet Girl’ (‘An Cailín Ciúin’) became the highest-grossing Irish-language film of all time
Film has topped €1m at the UK-Ireland box office
Colm Bairéad’s drama An Cailín Ciúin (The Quiet Girl) has become the highest-grossing Irish-language film of all time around the world, and first Irish-language drama to gross €1m at the Ireland and UK box office.
The film is continuing to screen at Irish cinemas almost 22 weeks following its release by Break Out Pictures, in partnership with Curzon in the UK.
Break Out Pictures said strong word of mouth, support from cinemas and a growing interest in stories told in the Irish language have all played a part.
“One of the...
Colm Bairéad’s drama An Cailín Ciúin (The Quiet Girl) has become the highest-grossing Irish-language film of all time around the world, and first Irish-language drama to gross €1m at the Ireland and UK box office.
The film is continuing to screen at Irish cinemas almost 22 weeks following its release by Break Out Pictures, in partnership with Curzon in the UK.
Break Out Pictures said strong word of mouth, support from cinemas and a growing interest in stories told in the Irish language have all played a part.
“One of the...
- 10/11/2022
- by Esther McCarthy
- ScreenDaily
Film has topped €1m at the UK-Ireland box office
Colm Bairéad’s drama An Cailín Ciúin (A Quiet Girl) has become the highest-grossing Irish-language film of all time around the world, and first Irish-language drama to gross €1m at the Ireland and UK box office.
The film is continuing to screen at Irish cinemas almost 22 weeks following its release by Break Out Pictures, in partnership with Curzon in the UK.
Break Out Pictures said strong word of mouth, support from cinemas and a growing interest in stories told in the Irish language have all played a part.
“One of the...
Colm Bairéad’s drama An Cailín Ciúin (A Quiet Girl) has become the highest-grossing Irish-language film of all time around the world, and first Irish-language drama to gross €1m at the Ireland and UK box office.
The film is continuing to screen at Irish cinemas almost 22 weeks following its release by Break Out Pictures, in partnership with Curzon in the UK.
Break Out Pictures said strong word of mouth, support from cinemas and a growing interest in stories told in the Irish language have all played a part.
“One of the...
- 10/11/2022
- by Esther McCarthy
- ScreenDaily
After 22 weeks in cinemas across Ireland and the U.K., writer-director Colm Bairéad’s “An Cailín Ciúin” (“The Quiet Girl”) has crossed €1 million at the box office. The film is Ireland’s entry in the Oscars’ international feature category.
Based on Irish author Claire Keegan’s story “Foster,” the coming-of-age film, set in rural Ireland in 1981, follows Cáit (Catherine Clinch) as she is sent from her overcrowded, dysfunctional household to live with distant relatives for the summer.
It has been an unstoppable force on the festival and awards circuit, winning top prizes at the Berlin, Dublin and Taipei film festivals and sweeping the Irish Film and Television Awards. Produced by Cleona Ní Chrualaoi for Inscéal, the film is distributed by Break Out Pictures and Curzon.
Nell Roddy and Robert McCann Finn, joint MDs of Break Out Pictures, said: “It’s a fantastic result and we’re thrilled that audiences in Ireland and the U.
Based on Irish author Claire Keegan’s story “Foster,” the coming-of-age film, set in rural Ireland in 1981, follows Cáit (Catherine Clinch) as she is sent from her overcrowded, dysfunctional household to live with distant relatives for the summer.
It has been an unstoppable force on the festival and awards circuit, winning top prizes at the Berlin, Dublin and Taipei film festivals and sweeping the Irish Film and Television Awards. Produced by Cleona Ní Chrualaoi for Inscéal, the film is distributed by Break Out Pictures and Curzon.
Nell Roddy and Robert McCann Finn, joint MDs of Break Out Pictures, said: “It’s a fantastic result and we’re thrilled that audiences in Ireland and the U.
- 10/11/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Colm Bairéad’s The Quiet Girl, which is Ireland’s entry in the Best International Film Oscar race this year, has punched through the €1m box office ceiling in a record-breaking performance for an Irish-language feature.
“We are truly humbled by the manner in which audiences in Ireland and the UK have embraced our film. To every single person who bought a ticket for The Quiet Girl and who championed the film since its release in May, we say thank you from the bottom of our hearts,” said director and writer Bairéad and producer Cleona Ní Chrualaoi of Inscéal.
“Huge thanks and congratulations to our fantastic Irish and UK distributors, Break Out Pictures and Curzon, who continue to work incredibly hard on the release. We are enormously grateful to all the cinemas that have allowed the film the time and space to grow and to Access Cinema for its extraordinary...
“We are truly humbled by the manner in which audiences in Ireland and the UK have embraced our film. To every single person who bought a ticket for The Quiet Girl and who championed the film since its release in May, we say thank you from the bottom of our hearts,” said director and writer Bairéad and producer Cleona Ní Chrualaoi of Inscéal.
“Huge thanks and congratulations to our fantastic Irish and UK distributors, Break Out Pictures and Curzon, who continue to work incredibly hard on the release. We are enormously grateful to all the cinemas that have allowed the film the time and space to grow and to Access Cinema for its extraordinary...
- 10/10/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Click here to read the full article.
Indie distributor Super has picked up North American rights to Colm Bairéad’s The Quiet Girl (An Cailín Ciúin), an Irish-language drama set in rural Ireland in the 1980s.
The feature premiered at the Berlin Film Festival this year, where it won the Grand Prix for best film in the Generation Kplus sidebar and was recently picked to represent Ireland in the 2023 Oscar race in the best international feature category.
The Quiet Girl took the Audience Award and the best Irish film honor at the Dublin International Film Festival this year and swept the Irish Film & Television Academy Awards, taking seven trophies, including best film, best director and best lead actress for lead Catherine Clinch.
Newcomer Clinch plays Cáit, a quiet, neglected girl who is sent away from her overcrowded, dysfunctional family to live with her mother’s relatives for the summer. She blossoms in their care,...
Indie distributor Super has picked up North American rights to Colm Bairéad’s The Quiet Girl (An Cailín Ciúin), an Irish-language drama set in rural Ireland in the 1980s.
The feature premiered at the Berlin Film Festival this year, where it won the Grand Prix for best film in the Generation Kplus sidebar and was recently picked to represent Ireland in the 2023 Oscar race in the best international feature category.
The Quiet Girl took the Audience Award and the best Irish film honor at the Dublin International Film Festival this year and swept the Irish Film & Television Academy Awards, taking seven trophies, including best film, best director and best lead actress for lead Catherine Clinch.
Newcomer Clinch plays Cáit, a quiet, neglected girl who is sent away from her overcrowded, dysfunctional family to live with her mother’s relatives for the summer. She blossoms in their care,...
- 9/8/2022
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Irish-language film is Ireland’s submission to the best international film Oscar.
US distribution company Super, an off-shoot of Neon, has acquired US rights to Colm Bairéad’s Irish-language drama The Quiet Girl from the UK’s Bankside Films.
The film is Ireland’s submission to Oscar’s best international film category this year.
Bairead’s debut feature tells the story of a neglected young girl, played by newcomer Catherine Clinch, who spends the summer with a caring foster family harbouring a big secret. The cast also includes Carrie Crowley, Andrew Bennett, Michael Patric and Kate Nic Chonaonaigh.
Bairéad...
US distribution company Super, an off-shoot of Neon, has acquired US rights to Colm Bairéad’s Irish-language drama The Quiet Girl from the UK’s Bankside Films.
The film is Ireland’s submission to Oscar’s best international film category this year.
Bairead’s debut feature tells the story of a neglected young girl, played by newcomer Catherine Clinch, who spends the summer with a caring foster family harbouring a big secret. The cast also includes Carrie Crowley, Andrew Bennett, Michael Patric and Kate Nic Chonaonaigh.
Bairéad...
- 9/8/2022
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
Super has taken North American rights to Colm Bairéad’s award-winning drama The Quiet Girl (An Cailín Ciúin), which was recently announced as Ireland’s entry for Best International Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards and selected for the 2022 European Film Awards.
The film is based on the story “Foster” by Irish author Claire Keegan, who has just been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It’s set in rural Ireland in 1981 and follows the quiet, neglected girl, Cáit (Catherine Clinch), who is sent away from her overcrowded, dysfunctional family to live with her mother’s relatives for the summer. She blossoms in their care, but in this house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one painful truth.
The Quiet Girl premiered at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, where it won the Grand Prix of the Generation Kplus International Jury for Best Film. It then...
The film is based on the story “Foster” by Irish author Claire Keegan, who has just been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It’s set in rural Ireland in 1981 and follows the quiet, neglected girl, Cáit (Catherine Clinch), who is sent away from her overcrowded, dysfunctional family to live with her mother’s relatives for the summer. She blossoms in their care, but in this house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one painful truth.
The Quiet Girl premiered at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, where it won the Grand Prix of the Generation Kplus International Jury for Best Film. It then...
- 9/8/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Bankside handles international sales.
Irish-language drama The Quiet Girl (An Cailín Ciúin) has been selected as Ireland’s entry for best international feature film at next year’s Academy Awards.
Writer-director Colm Bairéad’s debut feature has enjoyed a lengthy run in Irish and UK cinemas and grossed €870,000 at the box office. It premiered at the Berlinale and since then has since secured further releases in international territories including New Zealand and Australia. Bankside handles international sales.
Told almost entirely in the Irish language, the film recounts the story of a neglected young girl named Cáit (Catherine Clinch) who spends...
Irish-language drama The Quiet Girl (An Cailín Ciúin) has been selected as Ireland’s entry for best international feature film at next year’s Academy Awards.
Writer-director Colm Bairéad’s debut feature has enjoyed a lengthy run in Irish and UK cinemas and grossed €870,000 at the box office. It premiered at the Berlinale and since then has since secured further releases in international territories including New Zealand and Australia. Bankside handles international sales.
Told almost entirely in the Irish language, the film recounts the story of a neglected young girl named Cáit (Catherine Clinch) who spends...
- 8/2/2022
- by Esther McCarthy
- ScreenDaily
The Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA) has selected Colm Bairéad’s debut feature The Quiet Girl (An Cailín Ciúin) as its entry for the best international film category for the 2023 Oscars, in the first announced submission of the upcoming awards season.
The Irish-language work swept the IFTA Awards last March to become the first debut feature to win best film, as well as clinch best director, actress, cinematography, editing, production design, and original score.
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Set in rural Ireland in 1981, the coming-of-age drama stars Catherine Clinch as a quiet, neglected girl who is sent from her overcrowded, dysfunctional household to live with distant relatives for the summer.
The Irish-language work swept the IFTA Awards last March to become the first debut feature to win best film, as well as clinch best director, actress, cinematography, editing, production design, and original score.
Related Story Janet Yang Elected Motion Picture Academy President Related Story A Tuesday Wish For The Film Academy: Elect A Great Communicator Related Story French Oscar Committee: 'Coda' Producer Philippe Rousselet, Hengameh Panahi, Grégoire Melin, Didar Domehri, Jacques Audiard, Michel Gondry Named As New Members
Set in rural Ireland in 1981, the coming-of-age drama stars Catherine Clinch as a quiet, neglected girl who is sent from her overcrowded, dysfunctional household to live with distant relatives for the summer.
- 8/2/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Click here to read the full article.
The 2023 Oscars may be well over seven months away and the events of the ceremony last March may be still making headlines. But that hasn’t stopped Ireland, which is getting into the race early.
As much of the industry slowly emerges from its summer holidays and warily eyes the incoming awards season, the Irish Film & Television Academy has announced that the Irish-language feature The Quiet Girl (An Cailín Ciúin) has been selected as Ireland’s best International feature film entry for the upcoming 95th Academy Awards.
The feature debut of Colm Bairéad, The Quiet Girl recently made history in Ireland when it became the first Irish language film to win the Irish Academy Award (IFTA) for best film. The film received 7 IFTAs overall including awards for director, actress, cinematography, editing, production design and original score. It also broke box office records in Ireland and the U.
The 2023 Oscars may be well over seven months away and the events of the ceremony last March may be still making headlines. But that hasn’t stopped Ireland, which is getting into the race early.
As much of the industry slowly emerges from its summer holidays and warily eyes the incoming awards season, the Irish Film & Television Academy has announced that the Irish-language feature The Quiet Girl (An Cailín Ciúin) has been selected as Ireland’s best International feature film entry for the upcoming 95th Academy Awards.
The feature debut of Colm Bairéad, The Quiet Girl recently made history in Ireland when it became the first Irish language film to win the Irish Academy Award (IFTA) for best film. The film received 7 IFTAs overall including awards for director, actress, cinematography, editing, production design and original score. It also broke box office records in Ireland and the U.
- 8/2/2022
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Bankside Films has picked up world sales rights to Colm Bairéad’s critically acclaimed debut feature The Quiet Girl (An Cailin Ciuin), which won seven Irish Film and TV Awards earlier this year, including Best Film, Director and Lead Actress.
Set in 1981 rural Ireland, the movie charts the story of a quiet, neglected girl who is sent away from her overcrowded, dysfunctional family to live with her mother’s relatives for the summer. She blossoms in their care, but in a house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one painful truth.
The Irish-language film is currently on release in the UK (Curzon) and Ireland (Break Out Pictures) and crossed €800k at the box office this week, having received rave reviews. It is a strong contender to be chosen as Ireland’s International Oscar contender next year.
The feature premiered at the Berlin Film Festival this year,...
Set in 1981 rural Ireland, the movie charts the story of a quiet, neglected girl who is sent away from her overcrowded, dysfunctional family to live with her mother’s relatives for the summer. She blossoms in their care, but in a house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one painful truth.
The Irish-language film is currently on release in the UK (Curzon) and Ireland (Break Out Pictures) and crossed €800k at the box office this week, having received rave reviews. It is a strong contender to be chosen as Ireland’s International Oscar contender next year.
The feature premiered at the Berlin Film Festival this year,...
- 7/8/2022
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
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- 6/9/2022
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The Quiet Girl is one of the most beautiful movies I’ve ever seen. It is perfection. It is impossibly small, and emotionally immense. This is the sort of film that creeps up on you slowly, in ways that you don’t realize are happening, until you are so utterly overcome with emotion that you don’t quite know how to digest it. It’s the sort of film that you sit through the entire end credits of, not because you are wondering which Marvel character will make a surprise appearance after them, or to be polite to the artists and craftspeople who made it, but because you simply cannot move, you’re that overwhelmed.
Honestly, it’s been a long time since I felt like it was disrespectful to the cinema audience that when the lights come up, you are expected to leave. I could have just sat alone...
Honestly, it’s been a long time since I felt like it was disrespectful to the cinema audience that when the lights come up, you are expected to leave. I could have just sat alone...
- 6/5/2022
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Catherine Clinch as Cáit in The Quiet Girl
Irish director Colm Bairéad's debut feature, The Quiet Girl (An Cailín Ciúin), an adaptation of Claire Keegan's novella Foster, centres on Cáit, a young girl despatched for the summer to the temporary care of surrogate parents, Eibhlin and Seán Cinnsealach.
Although Seán is initially distant towards Cáit, she blossoms in their care. As the Cinnsealach's tragic past is revealed, the relationship with their temporary foster daughter becomes more emotionally complicated. Set against the backdrop of rural Ireland, the three characters fill a void in one another in what is a mutually transformational experience.
The Quiet Girl
In conversation with Eye For Film, Bairéad discussed having faith that simple storytelling can yield something complex and compelling, honouring the spirit of Keegan’s novella, and the transformation of tragedy into a life affirming message.
Paul Risker: It’s a commitment to make a film,...
Irish director Colm Bairéad's debut feature, The Quiet Girl (An Cailín Ciúin), an adaptation of Claire Keegan's novella Foster, centres on Cáit, a young girl despatched for the summer to the temporary care of surrogate parents, Eibhlin and Seán Cinnsealach.
Although Seán is initially distant towards Cáit, she blossoms in their care. As the Cinnsealach's tragic past is revealed, the relationship with their temporary foster daughter becomes more emotionally complicated. Set against the backdrop of rural Ireland, the three characters fill a void in one another in what is a mutually transformational experience.
The Quiet Girl
In conversation with Eye For Film, Bairéad discussed having faith that simple storytelling can yield something complex and compelling, honouring the spirit of Keegan’s novella, and the transformation of tragedy into a life affirming message.
Paul Risker: It’s a commitment to make a film,...
- 5/18/2022
- by Paul Risker
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
A silent child is sent away to live with foster parents on a farm in this gem of a film from first-time feature director Colm Bairéad
This beautiful and compassionate film from first-time feature director Colm Bairéad, based on the novella Foster by Claire Keegan, is a child’s-eye look at our fallen world; already it feels to me like a classic. There’s a lovely scene in which the “quiet girl” of the title, 10-year-old Cáit (played by newcomer Catherine Clinch), is reading Heidi before bedtime, and this movie, for all its darkness and suppressed pain, has the solidity, clarity and storytelling gusto of that old-fashioned Alpine children’s tale – about the little girl sent away to live in a beautiful place with her grandfather.
The setting is the early 80s, in a part of County Waterford where Irish is mostly spoken (subtitled in English). Cáit is a withdrawn little kid,...
This beautiful and compassionate film from first-time feature director Colm Bairéad, based on the novella Foster by Claire Keegan, is a child’s-eye look at our fallen world; already it feels to me like a classic. There’s a lovely scene in which the “quiet girl” of the title, 10-year-old Cáit (played by newcomer Catherine Clinch), is reading Heidi before bedtime, and this movie, for all its darkness and suppressed pain, has the solidity, clarity and storytelling gusto of that old-fashioned Alpine children’s tale – about the little girl sent away to live in a beautiful place with her grandfather.
The setting is the early 80s, in a part of County Waterford where Irish is mostly spoken (subtitled in English). Cáit is a withdrawn little kid,...
- 5/11/2022
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
The film will be released in UK cinemas and Curzon Home Cinema and cinemas across Ireland on May 13.
The UK’s Curzon and Ireland’s Break Out Pictures have secured Irish-language drama The Quiet Girl (An Cailín Ciúin) and will release the feature in the UK and Ireland on May 13.
The rights were acquired directly from the film’s Dublin-based producer Cleona Ní Chrualaoi of Inscéal.
Rosa Bosch is handling all further international sales.
In the UK, the film will open day-and-date in UK cinemas and on Curzon Home Cinema.
Festival sensation
Irish writer-director Colm Bairéad’s coming-of-age feature received...
The UK’s Curzon and Ireland’s Break Out Pictures have secured Irish-language drama The Quiet Girl (An Cailín Ciúin) and will release the feature in the UK and Ireland on May 13.
The rights were acquired directly from the film’s Dublin-based producer Cleona Ní Chrualaoi of Inscéal.
Rosa Bosch is handling all further international sales.
In the UK, the film will open day-and-date in UK cinemas and on Curzon Home Cinema.
Festival sensation
Irish writer-director Colm Bairéad’s coming-of-age feature received...
- 3/16/2022
- by Esther McCarthy
- ScreenDaily
Irish-language ‘The Quiet Girl’ enjoys historic win at 2022 Irish Film And Television Academy awards
It is the first Irish-language feature to win the best film prize.
Colm Bairéad’s debut The Quiet Girl (An Cailín Ciúin) won the main prize at the 2022 Irish Film And Television Academy (IFTA) awards, presented during a virtual ceremony on Saturday night (March 12).
Irish-language drama The Quiet Girl follows a young girl as she spends the summer away from her dysfunctional family in 1980s Ireland, and goes to stay with a foster couple. The drama won the prize for best film – the first time in IFTA history that an Irish-language film has taken this award.
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Colm Bairéad’s debut The Quiet Girl (An Cailín Ciúin) won the main prize at the 2022 Irish Film And Television Academy (IFTA) awards, presented during a virtual ceremony on Saturday night (March 12).
Irish-language drama The Quiet Girl follows a young girl as she spends the summer away from her dysfunctional family in 1980s Ireland, and goes to stay with a foster couple. The drama won the prize for best film – the first time in IFTA history that an Irish-language film has taken this award.
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- 3/14/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Colm Bairéad’s Irish-language drama An Cailín Ciúin (The Quiet Girl) was the big film winner at last night’s vritual Irish Film and Television Academy awards with eight wins. Scroll down for the full list of winners.
Director Colm Bairéad’s debut won best film, best director and lead actress for Catherine Clinch in addition to multiple craft awards. Bairéad also won the rising star prize. The coming-of-age drama had debuted at the Berlin Film Festival where it won two prizes.
Creators Ciaran Donnelly and Peter McKenna’s Kin won big in the TV categories with six prizes including best drama, script for McKenna, lead actress drama for Clare Dunne, lead actor drama for Sam Keeley and supporting actress drama for Maria Doyle Kennedy.
Ciaran Hinds won both the film and drama supporting actor awards on the night for Belfast and Kin, respectively. Belfast, which had garnered ten nominations,...
Director Colm Bairéad’s debut won best film, best director and lead actress for Catherine Clinch in addition to multiple craft awards. Bairéad also won the rising star prize. The coming-of-age drama had debuted at the Berlin Film Festival where it won two prizes.
Creators Ciaran Donnelly and Peter McKenna’s Kin won big in the TV categories with six prizes including best drama, script for McKenna, lead actress drama for Clare Dunne, lead actor drama for Sam Keeley and supporting actress drama for Maria Doyle Kennedy.
Ciaran Hinds won both the film and drama supporting actor awards on the night for Belfast and Kin, respectively. Belfast, which had garnered ten nominations,...
- 3/13/2022
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
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