First impressions of The Quiet Girl

Colm Bairéad's enchanting and patiently observant film about a child caught between two families and two ways of living is a rare treasure.

One cinephile at Letterboxd calls The Quiet Girl “a much darker, slower, and, well, QUIETER version of Anne of Green Gables.”

I wouldn’t have thought of that, but I like it. Just as L. M. Montgomery’s novel follows an orphan girl’s coming of age, The Quiet Girl is about a young girl who begins — or, rather, begins again — to figure out how the world works, and what her part in it might be, in the context of a volunteer family.

And yes, it is darker.