Mark Kermode reviews The Quiet Girl (2021) | BFI Player

My favourite film of the year, great choice.

Iontach maith gan dabht ar bith.

Why were the dialogues recorded in reverse? 😮

Far and away the best film of 2022

Possibly my favourite film of all time, competing with Terence Davies’ Of Time And The City.
Every single shot in this film exudes a quality that other films have only hoped for.
The story is perfectly told and speaks an absolute truth about love and compassion.
It really is perfect.

My fav film of the year. Fantastic acting. Loved it.

Sometimes I feel very hardened to the beauty and emotional power of a film but I really cannot remember being so affected by a film. Just so utterly beautiful in every which way.

The ending had me in bits

I saw this a few months back at a cineplex on a Sunday morning with 5 others in the theatre and it hasn’t left me since… there’s really nothing to it but yet it’s so human

Amazing, heart wrenching film.

Such a beautiful film.

Wow, so simple, so real, that ending tough, was blubbering like a baby

The little girl's acting was phenomenal, a great cast overall and totally heartbreaking.

It's heartwarming, it's heartbreaking, it's meaningful, but it never surprises you. You read the synopsis: "a neglected girl from a large family is sent to live with distant family over the summer, while her parents take care of their latest baby", and you know exactly what's going to happen. You can take that beginning of that story arc and plot it's course right to the end in your head without missing a beat along the way. It's a no doubt a very good film, but it's one that I'd watched through in my head 90 minutes before the credits rolled.

scannán thar barr álainn é

Glad to see this making the award end of the Oscars. It's one of the most beautiful and poignant movies I've ever watched.

This movie is massively overrated , it's cold , shot like a documentary and I know it was designed to be just that but please don't say it's a masterpiece because it's not , the girl has three expression during the whole movie she is not a great actress she is just ok but no one is saying it because she is a child , the best acting in the movie was by the older women and the girls father they were very convincing, the story itself is nothing new nothing special , if you lie a movie with has a similar lost childhood tone to this watch Babyteeth

Just an outstandingly beautiful film. An ideal companion to Victor Erice's El Sur, which it visually references

There really is nothing like a good cry now and again.

The film is not that good.
Because we read the subs, we ourselves create the perfection of the delivery.
Anyone who has read the book will have to say, it's not that good. It could have done a lot of things much better.
But again, I think this is the same thing! It will never be as good as what we saw when reading that lovely, poem of a little book.

A great film, without recommendation from UK critics, I would never have heard of it where I am in the far east. There is meaning and emotion in every scene without much dialogue. The ending I will remember for a long time.

I haven't seen this film but just looking at the characters and set it seems like it could be very much like Ann of green gables.

Just saw it at the theater. Brilliant!

Should’ve been a short film. This was so incredibly slow and tedious

A staggeringly beautiful film. The last scene is devastating.

Great review of just a stunning film. Anyone know what is the name of the French cinema poet Mark refers to? (Am going to butcher the spelling: something like Celine Charmant?). Want to look him/her up and learn more about him/her.

A REAL Irish film, unlike that pretentious Banshees bollox. Should have been put in for the Oscar (main best picture) instead.

I love this film.

What a movie it was. Wow. Could not leave until the ending credit finished.

What a beautiful masterpiece and destroyed me emotionally

Was just watching this video when An Ending (Ascent) started playing on Spotify and I just started crying my eyes out.

Cáit . K-uh- ah- chhhh ( like a choo choo train)

This should be a mandatory watch for screenwriters in how to effectively create a genuine connection with characters. A story that from afar has been told many times, but man: when that ending comes, every poignant moment and detail that seems small builds into such a gut-punch of an emotional conclusion. I was gobsmacked by the power of that ending. Brilliant movie.

A very emotional film. Impressive work to translate Claire Keegan's novel into a movie. I saw it yesterday evening - and can imagine to just watch it once again tonight. So poignant to see Cait slowly opening up for being cared by somebody

I absolutely loved this movie when the little girl came home and literally no one embraced her i wanted her to run after them too cried my eyes out what a beautiful film.😊