Catherine Clinch
Cáit
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Set in 1981, the film follows a withdrawn nine-year-old girl raised by neglectful parents among many other siblings, who experiences a loving home for the first time when she spends the summer on a farm in Rinn Gaeltacht, County Waterford, alone with a married couple who are distant relatives.
The Quiet Girl: Directed by Colm Bairéad. With Carrie Crowley, Andrew Bennett, Catherine Clinch, Michael Patric. 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.
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- Drama
- Colm Bairéad
- 2022-05-13
Feb 24, 2023 · The quiet girl of the title is named Cáit, and she's played with aching sensitivity by a gifted first-time actor named Catherine Clinch. Cáit is the shyest and most neglected kid in her poor ...
Dec 16, 2022 · The Quiet Girl. Rural Ireland. 1981. Nine-year-old Cait is sent away from her overcrowded, dysfunctional family to live with foster parents for the summer. Quietly struggling at school and at...
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- Colm Bairéad
- PG-13
- Catherine Clinch
- What Happens at The End of ‘The Quiet Girl’?
- ‘The Quiet Girl’ Alludes to A History of Abuse
- Seán Is The Father Cáit Never Had
- Cáit Helps The Kinsellas Confront Their Grief
Throughout the summer spent with Seán and Eibhlín, Cáitcomes out of her shell, becoming more comfortable with herself and forming an intimate bond with her temporary guardians. Seán, while at firstwithdrawn and emotionally distant, soon treats Cáit like the daughter he never had. Near the end of the film, it’s revealed that Seán’s initial coldness ...
In order to properly and fully unpack the film’s restrained ending, it’s important to first look at a crucial plot point that is only alluded to, rather than outright stated. Apart from the unnatural discomfort that Cáit shows around her father, there are a few other signs that hint at the sinister truth that Cáit has been abused, perhaps even sexu...
Because of her father’s cruelty and abuse, Cáit has rejected him as a proper father figure. Through the abuse, as well as her mother’s general neglect, Cáit had become timid and reserved. She’d been cheated out ofthe unconditional love that a parent owes their child. Ironically, it’s only through Eibhlín and Seán (her mother's cousin and Eibhlín's ...
With Seán accepting Cáit as a daughter figure, he also completes a crucial transformation. The emotional scars left by his son’s tragic death, while never able to vanish, are treated through Cáit’s presence. If his initial rejection of her came from a place of sensitivity, his push for her to buy her own clothes (rather than grotesquely wearing the...
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Feb 23, 2023 · 94 minutes ‧ PG-13 ‧ 2023. The nameless narrator of Claire Keegan’s award-winning 2015 short story Foster is a little girl, living in rural Ireland, sent to stay with relatives she’s never met while her mother has yet another baby. Too many mouths to feed already.
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