Small Things Like These12A

Directed by Tim Mielants | Ireland | 2024 | 1h 38m | Starring Cillian Murphy, Emily Watson, Michelle Fairley, Clare Dunne, Mark McKenna

In 1985, in a small town in County Wexford, Ireland, a coal merchant makes his routine deliveries to a local convent. One morning, he stumbles upon a shocking secret, forcing him to confront both his own past and the silent complicity of a community dominated by the Catholic Church. Cillian Murphy and Emily Watson star in this haunting and emotionally powerful drama adapted from Claire Keegan’s Booker Prize-nominated novel.

Reviews

‘I was so rapt, so caught up in this film, that I wasn’t aware that it was going to be the ending until the screen faded to black. It is an absorbing, committed drama.’
★★★★
Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

‘Small Things Like These is a tight-lipped Irish drama even more suffused with sadness than the log-line implies, and shouldered with hypnotic grace by a very special Cillian Murphy in his first post-Oppenheimer role.’
★★★★
Tim Robey, The Telegraph

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