The Quiet Girl (An Cailín Ciúin - 2022)

I really liked this story of a nine-year-old Irish girl, from a 1980s unhappy squalid home, whose circumstances change drastically. Be patient to find out what’s going on. And be ready for subtitles, as it is almost entirely in the Irish language, not English.

Catherine Clinch as title character Cáit won the Irish Film and Television Award for Best Actress in a Lead Role-Film for this, her debut, and she and Carrie Crowley as Cáit's cousin Eibhlín (pronounced AYV-lin) have a more nominations as well. 

Director/writer Colm Bairéad based his script on the short story Foster by Claire Keegan, told from the girl's point of view.

Lovely music by Stephen Rennicks is not on Apple Music but I found it on Spotify.

Rennicks was last blogged for Good Luck to You, Leo Grande and he also scored the Irish mini-series Normal People, which used the photographic talents of Kate McCullough, who shot this movie. I'm not familiar with the work of any of the rest of the main cast and crew, but this holds the distinction of being the first Irish language movie to be Oscar-nominated.

Rotten Tomatoes' critics and audiences are cheering out loud, averaging 96 and 93%, respectively. I rented it from Apple TV/iTunes on June 6. The movie racked up lots of nominations and wins (practically swept the Irish awards) and had been on my list for a while.