How Ireland Got Its First-Ever International-Feature Oscar Nomination

I’m not the first person to tell the Quiet Girl director Colm Bairéad that his film, now a best-international-feature Oscar nominee, wrecked me. “I’m never sure whether to apologize to people who have that experience,” Bairéad admits. But he’s also been there. The first time he read “Foster,” the story by Claire Keegan on which the movie is based, he too was reduced to tears. In The Quiet Girl, set in 1981, Cáit (Catherine Clinch) goes to spend a summer with her distant relatives away from her pregnant mother, disinterested father, and the rest of her large family that sees… Read Full Article