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Starring
Tim Mielants , UK, 2024, Cert 12, 99 min
Cillian Murphy, Eileen Walsh, Michelle Fairley
Screening
17th June 2025, 6.30pm, Petroc - Tiverton
Small Things Like These takes place over Christmas in 1985, when devoted father and coal merchant Bill Furlong (Cillian 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 Magdalene laundries -- horrific asylums run by Roman Catholic institutions from the 1820s until 1996, ostensibly to reform "fallen young women." Adapted from the Booker Prize nominated novel by Claire Keegan.
“Small Things Like These proceeds instead with graceful storytelling and gossamer restraint — not a thriller, but thrilling.”
Danny Leigh, Financial Times
