Cillian Murphy Talks ‘Small Things Like These’ & What He’s Learned As A Producer: “Challenge Everything & Be True To Your Instinct”
deadline.comSmall Things Like These, starring and produced by Cillian Murphy, opens today in the UK and Ireland before bowing November 8 in the U.S.
The Tim Mielants-directed drama opened the Berlin Film Festival in February to great acclaim, with Emily Watson’s turn as a formidable nun scooping the Silver Bear for Best Supporting Actress.
In the 1985-set film, Murphy stars as Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and devoted father who 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.
This is the first feature production from Murphy and his recently minted Big Things Films banner, which he runs alongside partner Alan Moloney.
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