Irish Oscar Entry ‘The Quiet Girl’ Breaks UK & Ireland Box Office Record
deadline.comColm Bairéad’s The Quiet Girl, which is Ireland’s entry in the Best International Film Oscar race this year, has punched through the €1m ($971,000) box office ceiling in a record-breaking performance for an Irish-language feature. “We are truly humbled by the manner in which audiences in Ireland and the UK have embraced our film.
To every single person who bought a ticket for The Quiet Girl and who championed the film since its release in May, we say thank you from the bottom of our hearts,” said director and writer Bairéad and producer Cleona Ní Chrualaoi of Inscéal. “Huge thanks and congratulations to our fantastic Irish and UK distributors, Break Out Pictures and Curzon, who continue to work incredibly hard on the release.
We are enormously grateful to all the cinemas that have allowed the film the time and space to grow and to Access Cinema for its extraordinary work in making the film available to local audiences,” they added.
Irish-language cinema has been gaining in profile in recent years but no title has come close to the €1m mark before. The previously highest-grossing film was the potato famine drama Arracht, which grossed €164,000 for UK and Ireland.
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