Mark Kermode reviews The Quiet Girl (2021) | BFI Player 

Sometimes I feel very hardened to the beauty and emotional power of a film but I really cannot remember being so affected by a film. Just so utterly beautiful in every which way.

I saw this a few months back at a cineplex on a Sunday morning with 5 others in the theatre and it hasn’t left me since… there’s really nothing to it but yet it’s so human

The ending had me in bits

The little girl's acting was phenomenal, a great cast overall and totally heartbreaking.

Possibly my favourite film of all time, competing with Terence Davies’ Of Time And The City. Every single shot in this film exudes a quality that other films have only hoped for. The story is perfectly told and speaks an absolute truth about love and compassion. It really is perfect.

A great film, without recommendation from UK critics, I would never have heard of it where I am in the far east. There is meaning and emotion in every scene without much dialogue. The ending I will remember for a long time.

There really is nothing like a good cry now and again.

A staggeringly beautiful film. The last scene is devastating.

Far and away the best film of 2022

Upon seeing it for the first time, I knew the movie would jump into my top 100 movies list, and into a strong position in the relationship category in that list. Watching it for the second time was incredibly rewarding because I was able to savor all of the things that make this movie remarkable: the acting of the three main characters, the cinematography, the ability to speak volumes without a single word being said. Catherine Clinch was incredible, and I hope she realizes how incredible her portrayal was when she is in her 30's and 40's.

My favourite film of the year, great choice.

My fav film of the year. Fantastic acting. Loved it.

Wow, so simple, so real, that ending tough, was blubbering like a baby

Glad to see this making the award end of the Oscars. It's one of the most beautiful and poignant movies I've ever watched.

What a movie it was. Wow. Could not leave until the ending credit finished.

Just an outstandingly beautiful film. An ideal companion to Victor Erice's El Sur, which it visually references

Iontach maith gan dabht ar bith.

Just saw it at the theater. Brilliant!

What a beautiful masterpiece and destroyed me emotionally

Such a beautiful film.

Was just watching this video when An Ending (Ascent) started playing on Spotify and I just started crying my eyes out.

Amazing, heart wrenching film.

It's heartwarming, it's heartbreaking, it's meaningful, but it never surprises you. You read the synopsis: "a neglected girl from a large family is sent to live with distant family over the summer, while her parents take care of their latest baby", and you know exactly what's going to happen. You can take that beginning of that story arc and plot it's course right to the end in your head without missing a beat along the way. It's a no doubt a very good film, but it's one that I'd watched through in my head 90 minutes before the credits rolled.

I love this film.

I haven't seen this film but just looking at the characters and set it seems like it could be very much like Ann of green gables.

Great review of just a stunning film. Anyone know what is the name of the French cinema poet Mark refers to? (Am going to butcher the spelling: something like Celine Charmant?). Want to look him/her up and learn more about him/her.

scannán thar barr álainn é

A REAL Irish film, unlike that pretentious Banshees bollox. Should have been put in for the Oscar (main best picture) instead.

Why were the dialogues recorded in reverse? 😮

"Иисус Христос неизменен: Он Тот же вчера, сегодня и вовеки. Иисус сказал: - Я есть путь, истина и жизнь. Никто не приходит к Отцу, как только через Меня. Я - дверь: кто входит через Меня, тот будет спасен. Здесь, на земле, у нас нет родины, и мы ожидаем будущего города. Наша же родина на небесах, и оттуда мы ожидаем Спасителя Иисуса Христа. (Флп 3:20) Будем через Иисуса постоянно приносить Богу жертву хвалы и благодарения, исходящую из уст, которые исповедуют Его имя.Благодарите Бога Отца, Который сделал вас достойными получить часть в наследии святых в Его Свете." (Евр 13:8,14-15)

Should’ve been a short film. This was so incredibly slow and tedious

The film is not that good. Because we read the subs, we ourselves create the perfection of the delivery. Anyone who has read the book will have to say, it's not that good. It could have done a lot of things much better. But again, I think this is the same thing! It will never be as good as what we saw when reading that lovely, poem of a little book.

This movie is massively overrated , it's cold , shot like a documentary and I know it was designed to be just that but please don't say it's a masterpiece because it's not , the girl has three expression during the whole movie she is not a great actress she is just ok but no one is saying it because she is a child , the best acting in the movie was by the older women and the girls father they were very convincing, the story itself is nothing new nothing special , if you lie a movie with has a similar lost childhood tone to this watch Babyteeth