daily stream: the most beautiful movie of 2022
2022’s *The Quiet Girl* is on Prime and Apple TV on both sides of the Atlantic
I am going to keep talking about the wondrous Irish film The Quiet Girl until everyone has seen it. From my review:
The Quiet Girl is one of the most beautiful movies I’ve ever seen. It is perfection. It is impossibly small, and emotionally immense. This is the sort of film that creeps up on you slowly, in ways that you don’t realize are happening, until you are so utterly overcome with emotion that you don’t quite know how to digest it. It’s the sort of film that you sit through the entire end credits of, not because you are wondering which Marvel character will make a surprise appearance after them, or to be polite to the artists and craftspeople who made it (both of which are, of course, completely valid reasons), but because you simply cannot move, you’re that overwhelmed.
Honestly, it’s been a long time since I felt like it was disrespectful to the cinema audience that when the lights come up, you are expected to leave. I could have just sat alone in the dark for a while longer with the feeling this beyond-lovely movie left me with.
The film is finally available to watch at home in the US (it’s been available digitally in the UK for months now), and I hope it will have that same overwhelming impact at home. (It never played in more than a few hundred cinemas in the US, so at home will be how most viewers will see it.) Please experience it, and let me know if it made you swell with joy like it did me.
US: rent/buy on Prime and Apple TV
UK: stream on BFI Player (via Prime); rent on Curzon Home Cinema; rent/buy on Prime and Apple TV
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I was lucky enough to see this in a cinema in the US, and gosh it is gorgeous! I must admit though, the ending gutted me in a way I didn’t expect, and left me a bit heartbroken; I’m not sure that was the intention. But goodness, it is so thoughtful and *full*.
And Carrie Crowley grabbed me and did not let go; she was fantastic!