IMDb plot summary: In rural Ireland, a quiet, neglected girl is sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with relatives for the summer where she blossoms and learns what it is to be loved.
Directed by Colm Bairéad. Stars Carrie Crowley, Andrew Bennett, and Catherine Clinch.
The Quiet Girl follows a young girl who is sent away from home to live with relatives while her mother has a new baby and deals with that. It's clear that the young girl is a nuisance to her biological family, but she slowly finds her place with her new temporary guardians, and they coax her out of her shell. This is a quiet movie, matching the slow patience of the guardians to the pace of the film as we watch this child slowly gain confidence. Because of that, I did sometimes feel myself getting antsy for something to *happen*, but the gentleness of the story worked for me most of the time. The final scene in particular does a great job of bringing home the emotion of the whole story. I feel like this is a film that is just on the edge of being one of my favorites, but I'd have to watch it at the right moment in time. Maybe one of those movies I go back to when I need to be reminded that good people exist. It's good to have a collection of those, and this is definitely one to add to the list, even if it felt a little slow to me on this first watch.
How it entered my Flickchart:
🎥 The Quiet Girl (2022)
📊 Ranked #874/4149 on my Flickchart
🎯 Flickscore™: 79
beat Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl (#2073 → #2074)
beat The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (#1036 → #1037)
lost to Crimes and Misdemeanors (held at #518)
lost to Colossal (held at #777)
beat Music and Lyrics (#906 → #907)
lost to Margin Call (held at #841)
lost to The Fantasticks (held at #873)
beat Upside Down (#889 → #890)
beat Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (#881 → #882)
beat Titanic (#877 → #878)
beat Holiday (#875 → #876)
beat Saturday Night (#874 → #875)
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