About Small Things Like These
Cillian Murphy turns in a moving, understated performance in this haunting adaptation of Claire Keegan’s novel.
It is 1985 in the run-up to Christmas in a small town in County Wexford, Ireland. Bill Furlong toils as a coal merchant to support himself, his wife and his five daughters. Early one morning while out delivering coal at the local convent, he makes a discovery that forces him to confront his past and the complicit silence of a town controlled by the Catholic Church.
Director: Tim Mielants
Cast: Ciarán Hinds, Cillian Murphy, Michelle Fairley, Emily Watson, Clare Dunne
“I was so rapt, so caught up in this film, that I wasn’t aware that it was going to be the ending until the screen faded to black. It is an absorbing, committed drama”
The Guardian
