Tādi nieki / Такие мелочи / Small things like these

Small Things Like These

Ireland, Belgium, USA, 2024, 96 min

Director: Tim Mielants

Starring: Cillian Murphy, Emily Watson, Claire Dunne, Helen Behan

Screen adaptation of Claire Keegan's award-winning novel Small Things Like These. The film is produced by Matt Diamond and Ben Affleck and directed by Tim Mielants (Birmingham TV series).

You never know what role this or that person has been in your life and how you yourself have changed someone else's life. Pain and joy walk hand in hand, leaving the same traces behind …

A small town in County Wexford, Ireland. It is Christmas Eve 1985. This is important, just as the events of this story did not take place in the dark middle ages. passing out sacks of coal and thus saving people from the cold. He has a big and loving family, a cozy house. The work is hard, it is enough for a living, and everything else is just such trifles.

However, sometimes he wakes up in the middle of the night and sits for a long time, trying to look into himself, as if how would you like to remember something extremely important, disturbing; something that disturbs him. If only I could get rid of these sick memories like the coal dust that eats into the skin, which is desperately washed off every night after work.

One ​​early Christmas morning, while placing another order , Bill Furlong encounters the ghosts of his past in the form of an unusual woman he meets at the entrance to the monastery.

Trying to understand what is happening, he delves into the dangerous, dark secrets of the local monastery, led by the mercantile and demonic convent supervisor - Sister Mary.

The whole town indifferently pretends not to see what is happening, but life with closed eyes is unbearable, and it is he - Bill Furlong - not going to mourn the undone for the rest of his life. He takes action.

This man, as fragile as a coal, tries to transfer his warmth to other people, even if he himself risks turning into ashes.

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