PG-13 | 1h 35m | October 16, 2022 (United States)
Irish director’s Colm Bairead’s “An Cailin Ciuin” (“The Quiet Girl”) is the first Irish language film ever to be nominated for an Academy Award.
It’s a triumph in many ways. It has the audacity to show Irish men and women as real human beings, not the loquacious/charming or fighting/conniving “stage Irishmen” who were launched on the English stage in the 17th century and followed by Hollywood ever since.
The characters are farmers around 1981, when rural Ireland was poor, hunger strikers were dying in a Northern Ireland prison, small farms were common, and the only link with the world outside the village was the radio….