Berlinale-Bound ‘The Quiet Girl’ Debuts Clip, Rosa Bosch Launches Sales at EFM (EXCLUSIVE)

Irish author/director Colm Bairéad’s narrative function debut “The Quiet Woman,” which world premieres on the Berlin Movie Pageant within the Technology Kplus part, has debuted a clip from the movie with Selection. Rosa Bosch Movies is dealing with world gross sales.

The movie is a fancy and delicate coming-of-age drama that explores questions of household, neglect and grief via the eyes of its younger protagonist. Commenting on the movie, director Mark Cousins stated: “What a young jewel of a movie. What beautiful Ozu-like photos and performances. I cried on the finish.”

The director of pictures is Kate McCullough, whose credit embody Lenny Abrahamson’s “Regular Individuals.” She gained for finest cinematography at Camerimage for the docudrama “I, Dolours” in 2018. She additionally shot “His and Hers,” which gained the World Cinematography Award in Documentary at Sundance in 2010. The music is by Stephen Rennicks, whose credit embody Abrahamson’s 2016 Oscar-winning “Room” and “Regular Individuals.”

“The Quiet Woman” is ready in rural Eire in 1981. Cáit is a 9-year-old lady from an overcrowded, dysfunctional and impoverished household. Quietly struggling in school and at dwelling, she has discovered to cover in plain sight from these round her.

As summer time arrives and her pregnant mom’s due date approaches, Cáit is distributed to dwell with distant relations. With out realizing when she’s going to return dwelling, she is left on the strangers’ home with solely the garments she is sporting. The Kinsellas, a middle-aged couple she has by no means met, gown the lady in what garments they’ve. They’re farming individuals, like her personal, however hard-working and wanting for nothing, it appears.

Regardless of a heat reception from the girl, Eibhlín, the person of the home, Seán, retains his distance from Cáit and she or he from him, however over time, their strained relationship begins to deepen. Slowly, within the care of the Kinsellas, Cáit blossoms and discovers a brand new way of life. However on this home the place affection grows and there are supposed to be no secrets and techniques, she discovers one painful reality.

The movie is predicated on the story “Foster” by Claire Keegan. It was first printed within the New Yorker and declared “Better of the Yr” by the journal. Bairéad commented: “Thematically, it touched upon so many areas of concern for me, issues that had been current in my quick drama work as much as that time — the complicated bonds of household, the query of emotional and psychological progress and, crucially, the phenomenon of grief and its capability to form us.”

He added: “From a proper perspective, the telling itself was instantly compelling — a first-person, current tense narrative informed via the eyes of a younger lady. It felt totally immersive and empathetic and innately visible — a lot of it’s what this lady is seeing and feeling second to second.”

The forged consists of Carrie Crowley, Andrew Bennett and Catherine Clinch as Cáit. The producer is Cleona Ní Chrualaoi for Inscéal. The movie is backed by Display Eire, TG4 and the Broadcasting Authority of Eire. The chief producer for TG4 is Máire Ní Chonláin; the manager producer for Display Eire is Dearbhla Regan.

Bairéad’s first commissioned quick after leaving school was “His Father’s Son,” a semi-autobiographical movie about an Irish-speaking household in Dublin, which loved success on the worldwide pageant circuit. His Irish-language shorts have garnered awards worldwide and his intensive documentary output has earned him quite a few worldwide and Irish Movie & Tv Academy award nominations and wins. He’s the recipient of a distinction from the Display Administrators’ Guild of Eire for his excellent work as a director within the Irish language.