The Quiet Girl (2022), Film4, based on Claire Keegan’s novella, Foster, written and directed by Colm Bairéad.

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-quiet-girl

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Quiet_Girl

The Quiet Girl is a quiet film with a quiet girl like a spider at the centre of a web of things that happen over which she has little or no control.

Summer 1981.

Nine-year-old Cáit (Catherine Clinchis) lives with her wastrel dad, a pregnant-again-mum and a brood on other brothers and sisters on a rundown Irish farm.

Cáit’s belonging are packed up and she is taken away by her dad and dropped off to stay with distant relatives of her mum’s.

Her elderly auntie Eibhlín Cinnsealach/Kinsella (Carrie Crowley) and her husband Seán (Andrew Bennett) without as much as a bye-you-leave are her new family.

Her dad drives away with her clothes. Eibhlín finds her others, boy’s clothes, with which she makes do. Slowly, Cáit blossoms on their farm.

There’s no great reveals. But the poisons of rural life aren’t far from the surface. Cáit receives an injection of venom from a shrew of a neighbour, when is questioned closely about all she has seen and heard—and told what’s what.

A lovely, slow-moving film with relationships at its centre, and an ending that rings true to life and love, everywhere.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CVBVVGD6