A quiet, neglected girl is sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with relatives for the summer. She blossoms in their care, but in this house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one.
Fanacht, Waiting, Das stille Mädchen, 安静的女孩, 말없는 소녀, الفتاة الهادئة, 夏日细语, Тихоня, 恬靜之夏, A csendes lány, La niña tranquila, دختر ساکت, Tiho dekle, A Menina Silenciosa, Mlčenlivá dívka, The quiet girl, Το Ήσυχο Κορίτσι, Cicha dziewczyna, Sessiz Kız, 夏日悄悄話, Hiljainen tyttö, Den tysta flickan, The Quiet Girl - A Menina Silenciosa, Тиха дівчинка, コット、はじまりの夏, Fata tăcută, เด็กหญิงแสนเงียบ, נערה שקטה
Germany Berlin International Film Festival 
Ireland12A Dublin International Film Festival 
Romania15 
Taiwan Taipei Film Festival 
BelgiumAL 
Netherlands18 
UK12 
USA Ireland12A 
AustraliaM 
Italy 
Greece 
Turkey 
FinlandK-12 Taiwan 
Denmark7 
SwedenBtl 
FranceTP 
South KoreaALL 
Spain 
Poland12 Germany12 
Brazil14 
Japan Ireland12A Ireland12A 
Hungary16 Poland 
Israel Ireland12A UK12 France Australia Belgium Brazil Denmark Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Ireland Israel Italy Japan Netherlands Poland Romania South Korea Spain Sweden Taiwan Turkey UK USA 
yes i am crying over a single biscuit
they really got the feeling of when you're a child and things just happen to you and everything dimly feels like your fault.
amazing kid.
Cinema as an empathy generating machine. The world from a nine-year old’s perspective, yet through my own eyes, it’s terrifying. A child’s life as the most vulnerable thing in the world. 94 minutes of drama, so beautifully crafted, it has to be seen on the big screen. It’s tight, and nothing is spared. All the info you need is there. When you’re given just enough of a beat to foreshadow even the next shot, and it then plays out as expected, I’m not sure I’ve ever seen that before. Everything clicks into place. This is absolute cinema.
Fully sobbed at the end when I realized how often we tend to take gestures, no matter how big or small, for granted. Whether it's someone brushing your hair, handing you a cookie or just watching tv with you, life's just a collection of those gestures and they should mean something each time.
"There's three lights now."
Empathy radiating from every shot, every small movement. No heroics, just care. "Minding" as a form of love, understanding.
Foster was a book that meant a lot to me as a teen, while still deathly in denial of the familial abuse/neglect I was in the throws of.
A beautiful understanding of that pain on display here, something truly special. Perfect filmmaking. Feeling fragile.
Love of my life in the credits, endlessly proud.
Quietly beautiful.
And I'm quietly crying.
I don’t understand, why is no one talking about this? This is easily one of the best films of the year for me. I feel as though I have been giving out 5 stars left and right recently. If a film manages to make me feel this way and has a profound impact on me after watching then I’m giving it fucking 5 stars. It absolutely ruined me, that final scene is the most I’ve cried at a film in a good while.
It’s such a simple premise but it’s so effective. The way it’s shot is just genius, camera work at its very best. It’a ultimately incredibly grounded and wants to show us the importance of kindness and…
“We don’t want any shame in this house.”
A softly delivered but impactful drama about finding a home outside of ones family.
Don’t let the gentleness of this film fool you. At its heart it dares to challenge the tyrannical grip the concept of ‘the blood family’ has on Irish society. It looks at how relationships, both within the community and inside our own homes, are forged through the act of doing. Love is found in daily chores and conversations shared. It’s found in the 99th and 100th stroke of a hairbrush. It’s even found in the worry we feel for one another.
Did you know Irish families aren’t allowed to adopt Irish children? A birth parents rights are so…
Why don’t you just pull out my heart and beat me across the face? It’ll be a quicker death than if I drowned in my tears. I promise.
The LOUD girl (me) sobbing and snotting all over Rathmines omniplex for the entirety of this film
You can always trust a Sean.
About 20 minutes in I felt it tugging and I was like "okay I'm going to open my heart to this movie. It better not make me regret that."
It did not.
