The new movie Small Things Like These, from Belgian director Tim Mielants (Will), is an adaptation of Irish author Clair Keegan’s 2021 novella of the same title. Both film and source text tackle the horror of Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries, a […]

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(The 2024 Middleburg Film Festival ran October 17-20. Check our Chris Reed’s Small Things Like These movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) With her 2010 short story “Foster,” Irish writer Claire Keegan established herself as a beautiful […]

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Following up his Oscar-winning performance in Oppenheimer, Cillian Murphy stars as a devoted father dealing with the complexity of discovering a terrible truth in Small Things Like These. Belgian filmmaker Tim Mielants directs this adaptation of the novel by Claire […]

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One of the best-reviewed films of the year is finally getting a U.S. release. Colm Bairéad’s feature-length debut, The Quiet Girl, is an adaptation of Claire Keegan’s novella “Foster,” which centers on a young mute girl (played by newcomer Catherine […]

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(Check out Ray Lobo’s movie review of The Quiet Girl (An Cailín Ciúin), it’s available now on VOD. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page). As a child I occasionally mused about being raised by different parents […]

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