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PMA Films: The Quiet Girl

  • Portland Museum of Art 7 Congress Square Portland, ME, 04101 United States (map)

SCREENING IN THE BERNARD OSHER FOUNDATION AUDITORIUM


Academy Award Nominee, Best International Feature!

Gorgeously realized and crafted with homespun care, this delicate and heartbreaking drama is one of the year’s best films.
— Kevin Jagernauth, Variety

95 minutes. PG-13. Directed by Colm Bairéad. In Irish with English subtitles.

Rural Ireland. 1981. Nine-year-old Cait is sent away from her overcrowded, dysfunctional family to live with foster parents for the summer. Quietly struggling at school and at home, she has learned to hide in plain sight from those around her. She blossoms in their care, but in this house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one painful truth.

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Later Event: March 10
Free Friday