2024 · drama
Small Things Like These
Directed by Tim Mielants1h 39m2024
In 1985, while working as a coal merchant to support his family, Bill Furlong discovers disturbing secrets kept by the local convent and uncovers truths of his own; forcing him to confront his past and the complicit silence of a small Irish town controlled by the Catholic Church.
Our read: Small Things Like These (2024) reads as a sombre, slow-burn, grounded drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, slow-burn, measured drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- slow-burn
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