The Quiet Girl (with spoilers)

[2023already]

Has anyone watched this? Really good film. Added spoilers to the title as interested to hear thoughts on the ending.

[MaeveTheRave1]

Saw it, loved it and choosing to believe she goes to live with Sean and Eibhlín otherwise it's unbearably sad 😔

[2023already]

I think I will rewatch it with that ending in mind! I felt very sad at the end. I couldn't really work it out though.
I think it would definitely be worth a second watch anyway, so beautifully made. I too loved it.

[desperatehousewife2]

I have rewatched a few times now, I love this film so much. I also choose to believe she goes home with Seán and Eibhlín. All the acting is fantastic but the little girl who plays Cáit was just perfection in this role

[LadyEloise1]

A beautiful film.
I hope it wins something at the Oscars.
🤞

[Pillowjoy]

It’s a very faithful adaptation of the Claire Keegan short story (that was later published separately in a longer form) — the end is also the moment where the girl runs down the boreen after the car and hugs Kinsella (they’re ‘Kinsella’ and ‘the woman’ in the story), but implicitly it’s a goodbye. The girl is looking over Kinsella’s shoulder at what he can’t see, her father coming down the boreen with a stick, and she keeps saying ‘Daddy’, and we’re told she’s ‘warning him’. And the woman is sobbing in the car — I think the phrase is something like ‘not for one but for two’ now.

At the film, I started crying at the biscuit scene and didn’t really stop…

[2023already]

Yes I understood it as a goodbye. But hoped the hug/the moment was still perhaps significant - the proper acknowledgement of their love, I tried to find some sort of hope for her that she had experienced love and proper care.

It is a really beautiful film.

[aleorcabuk]

When she says Daddy twice at the end, I read it as she is calling Sean a real daddy. Not the threatening drunk coming down the lane. So I see the next scene as her going off in the car with 'real ' parents.

[LadyEloise1]

I'd love it to get a gong at the Oscars.
I'd love it to get a wider audience.

[BlluePeril]

@aleorcabuk

When she says Daddy twice at the end, I read it as she is calling Sean a real daddy. Not the threatening drunk coming down the lane. So I see the next scene as her going off in the car with 'real ' parents.

That’s not what happens in the short story, though. Or at least, as a pp said, it ends there, but with the girl warning Kinsella about her father coming and the woman crying for another loss in the car.

But I likewise hold to the idea that this summer will have made a difference.

[FuzzyCaoraDhubh]

I saw it last weekend. I loved it. I thought it was really well made and I was glad that the film stayed close to the book. I loved all the cast, but I thought the actor who played Eibhlín was brilliant. So expressive, beautiful and wonderful in the role.

I think Cáit had to stay with her family, but what I took from it as I tried to mop up my tears at the end, is that the love and care that she received in that couple's care will stay with her and will encourage her to get away eventually and have a good life, to rise above her circumstances. Gorgeous film.