Small Things Like These
Cillian Murphy delivers a quietly powerful performance in this stunning adaptation of Claire Keegan's best-selling novel about compassion and difficult moral choices.
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Devoted father Bill Furlong (Cillian Murphy) works as a coal merchant to support his family. In the days leading up to Christmas, he discovers disturbing secrets kept by the local convent—and uncovers truths of his own. As he confronts his past, he weighs the costs of breaking the complicit silence surrounding the Catholic Church's Magdalene laundries in his small Irish town controlled by the Mother Superior (Emily Watson).
Based on Claire Keegan's best-selling novel, this story about a man wrestling with a difficult moral choice is beautiful in its simplicity. Cillian Murphy, fresh off his Oppenheimer Oscar win, delivers a nuanced performance of quiet intensity that is sure to earn him another nod this year. More interested in exploring questions about how one confronts systemic injustice than determining answers, this is a rare film that feeds the soul and also leaves you wanting more.
D: Tim Mielants, Ireland, 2024, 1h37m, Closed Captions
Programmed in conjunction with the Tuck School of Business class on "Moral Reasoning: From Machiavelli to The Bomb to AI"
Programmed as part of Dartmouth's Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration, with the theme of "Moral Courage in the Face of Uncertainty"
It’s Murphy’s exquisitely pained performance, unclenching by fine degrees into something like grace, that gives “Small Things Like These” its eventual, fist-in-the-gut power, even as the film evades melodramatic confrontation to the last, ending elegantly at a point where many other stories might choose to begin.
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