Small Things Like These

[Machine Translation] Should we help, or turn a blind eye? / A shocking film featuring a star-studded cast, including Cillian Murphy winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor for *Oppenheimer*! Following *Oppenheimer* (23), which , *Oppenheimer* (2023), Cillian Murphy has chosen this film as his next challenge a profound human drama set against the backdrop of human rights issues! Additionally, Emily Watson, who plays Sister Mary in this film, won the Silver Bear (Best Supporting Actress) at the *74th Berlin International Film Festival*!! / The film s production team includes Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, known for *Good Will Hunting* and *AIR*! Killian Murphy, who fell in love with the global best-selling novel by Claire Keegan one of contemporary Ireland s leading authors and wanted to adapt it for the screen, pitched the project to Matt Damon while filming *Oppenheimer*, and with Ben Affleck joining the team, the production became a reality! This marks Murphy s first time serving as a producer, and he was also involved in the casting!! / Based on the global bestseller *A Little Thing* by Claire Keegan, one of contemporary Ireland s leading authors. / There are many high-quality social-issue films that tackle human rights issues, such as *Spotlight* and *The Collective*, among others! --The story is set in 1985 in a small Irish town. Bill Farlong, who makes a living as a coal merchant and lives modestly with his family, witnesses a reality he would rather turn a blind eye to one day as Christmas approaches, while delivering coal to a local convent. A young girl living there pleads with him, Please get me out of here," forcing him to confront the reality of young women suffering with nowhere to turn. Though he understands it would be wiser to turn a blind eye, Bill is tormented by his conscience. What decision will he ultimately make?

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助けるべきか、見過ごすべきか。■『オッペンハイマー』にて《アカデミー賞R主演男優賞》受賞のキリアン・マーフィー他、豪華キャスト競演の衝撃作! 《第96回アカデミー賞R主演男優賞》に輝いた『オッペンハイマー』(23)の後、キリアン・マーフィーが次なる挑戦として選んだ本作は、人権問題を背景に描かれる重厚な人間ドラマ! また本作にてシスター・メアリー役を演じたエミリー・ワトソンが《第74回ベルリン国際映画祭》にて銀熊賞 (最優秀助演賞)を受賞!! ■本作製作スタッフは『グッド・ウィル・ハンティング/旅立ち』『AIR/エア』他のマット・デイモン&ベン・アフレック! 現代アイルランドを代表する作家クレア・キーガンの世界的ベストセラー小説にほれ込み、映画化を希望したキリアン・マーフィーが、『オッペンハイマー』撮影中にマット・デイモンに企画を持ち掛け、ベン・アフレックも加わり本作製作が実現! マーフィーは本作で初めてプロデューサーとしても名を連ね、キャスティングにも参加!! ■原作は、現代アイルランドを代表する作家クレア・キーガンの世界的ベストセラー小説「ほんのささやかなこと」■人権問題に対峙する社会派作品は『スポットライト 世紀のスクープ』『コレクティブ 国家の嘘』他、良質作が多数! ──舞台は1985年、アイルランドの小さな町。炭鉱商人として生計を立て、家族と慎ましく暮らすビル・ファーロングは、クリスマスが近づくある日、石炭を届けに訪れた地元の修道院で、目を背けたくなる現実を目撃する。そこに身を置く少女から「ここから出してほしい」と懇願され、若い女性たちが行き場もなく苦しんでいる現実と向き合うことに。見て見ぬふりをすることが賢明だと理解しながらも、良心の呵責に悩むビル。そんな彼が、ついに下す決断とは?