Small Things Like These

2024 · 99 min · EN · PG-13 · 6.7 (621 votes)

Dir. Tim Mielants · Starring Cillian Murphy, Emily Watson, Michelle Fairley, Eileen Walsh, Zara Devlin, Clare Dunne · Music Senjan Jansen

“If you want to get on in life, there’s things you have to ignore so you can keep on.”

Drama

In 1985, while working as a coal merchant to support his family, Bill Furlong discovers disturbing secrets kept by the local convent and uncovers truths of his own; forcing him to confront his past and the complicit silence of a small Irish town controlled by the Catholic Church.

VIBE

This is a quiet, deeply affecting drama that unfolds with a heavy, melancholic grace. It feels like a somber journey through a community's unspoken truths, imbued with a palpable sense of historical weight and moral reckoning. The atmosphere is grim yet tender, inviting introspection on complicity and conscience.

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