Berlinale 2024 to open with ‘Small Things Like These’ with Cillian Murphy
thehollywoodnews.comSmall Things Like These, an Irish-Belgian production. Directed by Tim Mielants from a screenplay by Enda Walsh, the international cast includes Cillian Murphy, Eileen Walsh, Michelle Fairley and Emily Watson.
Small Things Like These will screen in Competition, all according to an official press release.The film is based on the book by the award-winning Irish writer Claire Keegan (who also wrote “Foster”, adapted into the Academy Award nominated Irish language film An Cailín Ciúin (The Quiet Girl)).
Small Things Like These reunites director Mielants (WIL, De Patrick, The Responder) with Murphy, who previously worked together on series three of Peaky Blinders.
Walsh, a longtime collaborator of Murphy’s, wrote the script. Small Things Like These takes place over Christmas in 1985, when devoted father and coal merchant Bill Furlong (Murphy) discovers startling secrets kept by the convent in his town, along with some shocking truths of his own.The film reveals truths about Ireland’s Magdalen laundries – horrific asylums run by Roman Catholic institutions from the 1820s until 1996, ostensibly to reform “fallen young women.”The film was produced by Murphy and Alan Moloney through their company Big Things Films along with Catherine Magee.
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