Small Things like These (2024)
Genre: Drama
Duration: 98 minuten
Country:
Ireland / Belgium / United States
Directed by: Tim Mielants
Stars: Cillian Murphy, Eileen Walsh and Michelle Fairley
IMDb score:
6,7 (36.160)
Releasedate: 1 November 2024
Small Things like These plot
Devoted father and coal trader Bill Furlong lives in 1980s Ireland. One day he learns the shocking truth behind the Magdalene Laundries, which provide shelter for so-called fallen women and are run by the Catholic Church. Bill himself also encounters hard truths about his personal life.
Actors and actresses
Bill Furlong
Sister Mary
Mrs. Wilson
Eileen Furlong
Sarah Redmond
Sister Carmel
Mrs. Kehoe
Laundry Girl
Pat
Barry
Reviews & comments
jorrit3
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- 90 messages
- 602 votes
As far as I'm concerned, this film can already be declared the Christmas film of 2024.
Touching and tender, with small and big tragedies cleverly interwoven. And with the good that wins, as in every story by Charles Dickens.
That's why it's not five stars. Our Bill is too good for this world, just a little too much angel.
Still I shed a tear. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.
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mrklm
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- 11629 messages
- 10041 votes
Bill Furlong [Cillian Murphy] works as a coalman in a close-knit Irish community. Bill [Cillian Murphy] has recently started having flashbacks to a traumatic period in his youth. His wife Eileen [Eileen Walsh] notices that something is bothering Bill, but Bill doesn't say anything. It soon turns out that it has to do with a shelter for rejected young women, run by Sister Mary [Emily Watson]. This depressing social drama could do with some humor and almost succumbs to its slow pace. Murphy has little more to do than stare melancholically into space in this unsatisfying drama based on true events.
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Fisico
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- 10039 messages
- 5398 votes
I was particularly impressed by The Magdalene Sisters (Film, 2002) at the time. Tim Mielants also sheds light on the subject in his new film, but approaches it differently. The dehumanizing customs are only sporadically addressed here and are fueled by the viewer's already acquired knowledge and suggestive thoughts. The film therefore focuses on life outside the nunnery and not what happens inside.
There, Bill Furlong is followed, a silent, good-natured, but above all hesitant and struggling coalman. We find ourselves in a gray, miserable Irish working-class town somewhere in the 80s. The weather is as gloomy as the town itself. The community is controlled in spirit by the spiritual Catholic life, although this is not explicitly expressed in the film.
The film is slow and takes its time to take its shots. I found it cinematographically a strong film with atmospheric images that sucked me into the time and the decor. I could especially pull myself up by the strong acting cast with Cillian Murphy at the head. Carey Mulligan also made an impression as the icy Mother Superior, although her screen time was quite limited. Eileen Walsch also did well, I first had the impression that it was a very thin Olivia Colman, not so.
The ending is sudden and yet slightly unsatisfying. I would have liked to know more about the sequel. Strong technical film by a professional, but in terms of content some will be left hungry, myself slightly included.
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