Cillian Murphy Historical Drama ‘Small Things Like These’ to Open Berlin Film Festival
variety.comEllise Shafer “Small Things Like These,” a historical drama starring Cillian Murphy, is set to open this year’s Berlin Film Festival.
Directed by Tim Mielants from a script by Enda Walsh, the film will have its world premiere in the festival’s competition on Feb.
15. Based on the book of the same name by Claire Keegan, “Small Things Like These” “reveals truths about Ireland’s Magdalen laundries – horrific asylums run by Roman Catholic institutions from the 1820s until 1996, ostensibly to reform ‘fallen young women,'” according to its synopsis.
Keegan previously penned “Foster,” which was adapted into the Oscar-nominated Irish-language film “The Quiet Girl.” Eileen Walsh, Michelle Fairley and Emily Watson also star in “Small Things Like These.” Murphy plays devoted father and coal merchant Bill Furlong, who during Christmas 1985 “discovers startling secrets kept by the convent in his town, along with some shocking truths of his own,” as a press release states.
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