Oscar

This year's shortlist, however, paints 2022 as being far from such a one-horse race. True, the supremacy of Cannes as the foreign-language kingmaker is ...

“You could say that The Quiet Girl is a small story, that it’s a kind of miniature, and that would be true,” he says. For an Irish-language film to achieve this would be a monumental moment, both for our country and for our language, which is an endangered language and which has rarely had a voice in the history of cinema.” From our own direct experience, audiences everywhere have tended to speak of the film’s beauty, referring not only to the visual presentation of the story or the manner of its telling, but to its deeper meaning.” The film’s commercial success might even mean that The Quiet Girl has a long shot at appearing in other categories, something that would have been unthinkable five or more years ago. In the end, The Quiet Girl ran in cinemas for over six months and grossed over €1 million at the Irish/U.K. These things were all present in the story the film was adapted from, which itself had been translated into multiple languages, so it was clear before we began that there was a universality to this story. So I kind of pushed that notion to the back of my mind and just focused on making a film that would appeal to my own sensibility.” It was just a question of harnessing that and honoring it in a new medium.” “Well,” he says, “there’s always that moment in the edit when your film — though incomplete — finds its voice for the first time, where you stop looking at the sheet music, so to speak, and just let this thing you’ve assembled speak to you for what it is. box office, smashing the previous record for an Irish-language film and becoming a kind of cultural landmark here in Ireland. Says Bairéad, “No Irish film has ever been nominated in this category at the Academy awards. Of all the films on the list, Bairéad’s film has had the longest life, premiering in February at the Berlinale’s often-overlooked Generations strand and getting a dual release in the U.K.