"The quiet girl", based on a novel by Claire Keegan, comes to the big screen

Between silences, gestures and minimal details but full of meaning, the film "The quiet girl", the adaptation of the novel "Three lights" by Claire Keegan that is currently being shown in theaters in the country after being nominated for an Oscar, summons to think about the passages between literature and cinema and the possibility of establishing a dialogue between works that, ultimately, require the autonomy that the format demands.

Invited by the Eterna Cadencia bookstore, whose label published the text by Keegan (Ireland, 1968) in 2010, the journalist Diego Brodersen, the translator of the work Jorge Fondebrider and the writer Inés Garland discussed the points of contact on Monday afternoon and the inconsistencies between the novel and the film and, among various apologies for committing spoilers, they analyzed how, in different formats, the same sensibility is explored.

“The quiet girl” is the debut feature of Irish director Colm Bairéad, who has a long career in short films, documentaries and series directing. The film takes up in a brief and delicate story set in 1981 in rural Ireland the story of Cáit, Catherine Clinch, an introverted girl who seems to hide from the world to escape the violent and careless family environment in which she lives. The viewer can notice during the hour and a half that the film lasts that nobody watches Cáit. Her parents do not pay attention to her needs and decide, to relieve her newly pregnant mother, to send her for a while with a couple of relatives.