A quiet, meditative portrait of a small town's open secret, Small Things Like These sees Cillian Murphy go small, but no less affecting.
A quiet, meditative portrait of a small town's open secret that sees Cillian Murphy go small, but no less affecting.with an aptly named film a fraction of that size. Director Tim Mielants’ adaptation of Claire Keegan’s 2021 novelstars Murphy as not a man who became Death, destroyer of worlds, but as an Irish coal merchant who stumbles upon his small town’s open secret.
Keegan and now Mielants tell the story of Bill Furlong , a father to five daughters who discovers that the convent which runs their Catholic school simultaneously runs not a shelter for wayward girls, as Bill’s wife Eileen wants to believe, but an infamous Magdalene laundry. As a closing dedication explains, 56,000 young women were sent to these church-run, government-funded laundries for penance and rehabilitation between 1922 and 1998 alone.
And “the nuns have a hand in every pie,” a local bartender forebodingly explains to Bill. It’s a warning as he finds himself morally tortured in the days following his chance encounters with the abused girls taking up residence in the convent. Bill is otherwise a quiet man of few words, cradled by an aura of perpetual melancholy despite his bustling house full of lively, chatty women.
But the first incident with the convent troubles Bill far more than the boy in the road. While delivering an invoice for a shipment of coal, Bill is accosted by one of the girls, who desperately pleads with him to take her away. With a scolding from a nun not to enter the convent unannounced and instruction to return another day, Bill leaves shaken.
Murphy leads the film, returning to his native Ireland, in a role that doubles as a powder keg of unresolved pain as well as a reminder that Murphy’s blockbuster bonafides don’t negate his indie roots. Produced by Murphy and helmed by the filmmaker who directed the third season of Murphy’scomes across as Murphy’s attempt to pay it forward after his world-renowned acclaim.
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