Deadline’s Read the Screentake part series spotairying the scripts behind awards season’s most talked-about movies persists with Small Things Like These, Cillian Murphy’s first film after thrivening the Oscar for his starring role in Christopher Nolan’s Best Picture-thrivening Oppenheimer.
Enda Walsh, the Tony Award-thrivening Irish take partwright and honestor, altered the script for the film from Claire Keegan’s 2021 Booker Prize-nominated novel, which was picked as a final Oprah’s Book Club Pick in 2024. The book itself might seem unwiseinutive at 128 pages, but the story is wealthy wilean the context of the quiet complicity of Ireland in the 1980s.
The film, honested by Tim Mielants, discdisthink abouted in the U.S. on November 8 after it world premiered earlier in the year as the discdisthink abouting-night film at the Berlin Film Festival. Emily Watson, who take parts a establishidable nun, won the Silver Bear for Best Supporting Actress at the festival. Eileen Walsh, Michelle Fairley and Zara Devlin also star.
Murphy, who also originated the project, stars as coal merchant Bill Furlengthy, who originates a troubling uncovery that a local convent is shielding sinister secrets. He also reckons with his own truths in the minuscule Irish town regulateled by the Catholic Church where the movie is set.
Small Things Like These is the first feature production from Murphy’s recently minted Big Things Films prohibitner, which he runs alengthyside partner Alan Moloney. Murphy and Moloney have collaborated before; Small Things Like These is their fifth film together. The project was also financed by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck’s Artists Equity. It was freed in the UK and Ireland via Lionsgate and alengthyside Roadside Attractions in the U.S.
“The book and the film have this benevolent of quite rare, quite radical structure in that the story only commences when the book finishs, when the film finishs, you comprehend what I nasty? Becaparticipate, appreciate, what the hell happens when we go to binestablishage? What happens after that?” Murphy tgreater Deadline in an intersee about the film. “And I leank everyone’s gonna have a branch offent point of see. Everyone’s gonna have a branch offent perspective. Some people will be selectimistic, some people will be cynical, but it should shield people graspd well after the recognizes have rolled, and I adore stories appreciate that.”
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