Soft & Quiet

Name: Soft & Quiet
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Horror
Released: November 4, 2022
Duration: 91 min
Rating: 82
Cast: Cissy Ly, Dana Millican, Jayden Leavitt, Jon Beavers, Jovita Molina

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Momentum Pictures | Release Date: November 4, 2022 | Not Rated

Starring: Cissy Ly, Dana Millican, Jayden Leavitt, Jon Beavers, Jovita Molina, Melissa Paulo, Nina E. Jordan, Olivia Luccardi, Shannon Mahoney, Stefanie Estes

Summary: Emily, an elementary school teacher, organizes an inaugural club meeting of like-minded women. When they all decide to move the meeting to Emily’s house to keep the wine flowing, they stop at the local store to pick up refreshments. At the store, an altercation breaks out between a woman from Emily’s past and the group, leading to aEmily, an elementary school teacher, organizes an inaugural club meeting of like-minded women. When they all decide to move the meeting to Emily’s house to keep the wine flowing, they stop at the local store to pick up refreshments. At the store, an altercation breaks out between a woman from Emily’s past and the group, leading to a volatile chain of events. … Expand

Director: Beth de Araújo

Genre(s): Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Horror

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 91 min

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The Playlist R. Colin Tait

Apr 13, 2022

Soft and Quiet begins as subtly as its title implies. It sneaks up on you. By the time you realize what it’s actually about, it’s too late and you are swept into a narrative (and a world) that you do not want to be a part of. Read full review

IndieWire Kate Erbland

Mar 17, 2022

The film unfolds like a runaway train, a rapid-fire thriller and drama and horror film all in one, both breathless and breathtaking. Read full review

Carlos Aguilar

Nov 4, 2022

One of the most audacious American debuts of the year, writer-director Beth de Araújo’s Soft & Quiet shocks one’s system from its opening moments and doesn’t ever slow down to let you fully process it as it happens. Read full review

Natalia Keogan

Nov 4, 2022

In depicting the rapid escalation from closeted bigotry to outright hate crime, Soft & Quiet communicates the urgency of identifying and standing up to similarly hateful groups in our own communities, which are never as “secret” as they wish to be. Read full review

Peter Debruge

Mar 17, 2022

Soft & Quiet is deeply unpleasant to watch, but that’s the point. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

May 4, 2023

A tight, minimalist thriller this smart, rhetoric-based turning towards violence and its repercussions, is too good and too important to ignore. Read full review

Beatrice Loayza

Nov 4, 2022

The brutal possibilities of the white supremacist mind-set are nothing to shy away from. Still, the film’s admittedly jarring cruelty does little beyond press down on old bruises, turning the realities of racialized violence into an immersive spectacle with the kind of real-world sadistic allure one might find in a serial-killer movie. Read full review

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cyberscoundrel

Mar 9, 2023

This movie is very, very confronting and disturbing and doesn’t in any way hold back with the themes it’s tackling. This movie will make you mad, sad, frustrated and ultimately leaves a taste in your mouth that’s difficult to wash out, and that’s exactly the point. It commentates on aThis movie is very, very confronting and disturbing and doesn’t in any way hold back with the themes it’s tackling. This movie will make you mad, sad, frustrated and ultimately leaves a taste in your mouth that’s difficult to wash out, and that’s exactly the point. It commentates on a massively prevalent issue within modern society and does so with no camera cuts or any room to breathe, adding to the masterfully crafted tension this movie provides. It is certainly a very well made movie, and it’s so effectively disturbing that I’m confident I’ll never watch it again… Expand

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Martin_Blank

Nov 7, 2022

This was very much worth the watch. Tight story with a realistic look at how insanely easy it is for small groups of people to transition from hateful conversations to actual violence. The acting was amazing, especially in the single-take form. I've been thinking about this film for daysThis was very much worth the watch. Tight story with a realistic look at how insanely easy it is for small groups of people to transition from hateful conversations to actual violence. The acting was amazing, especially in the single-take form. I've been thinking about this film for days after I saw it.… Expand

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Orukayu

Jan 22, 2023

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. 2022 thriller movie. In the movie, a group of women from various professions hold a nationalist-themed meeting among themselves. Then they break up the meeting and the 4 of them decide to go to someone's house and drink wine. One of them is the owner of the market. When they come to the market to buy wine, two immigrant women come as customers. They humiliate women. Immigrant women also swear at them when they leave. In these, they all want to go to the immigrants' house before them and make jokes, and they miss the point.

An extremely frustrating movie. At the same time, it reveals what kind of disease fanaticism is.

The movie has sexual implications but no nudity.… Expand

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panther49

Nov 4, 2022

A film critic on RT stated that this gave her a panic attack, so I had to watch it. I went in expecting something gruesome and difficult to stomach, given the praise from critics, but overall it was a "meh" experience.

The most ironic thing about this movie is that its existence proves someA film critic on RT stated that this gave her a panic attack, so I had to watch it. I went in expecting something gruesome and difficult to stomach, given the praise from critics, but overall it was a "meh" experience.

The most ironic thing about this movie is that its existence proves some of the points it attempts to condemn: that minorities in America are given special treatment and whites are demonized. I'll address this last, however.

Noting the anti-feminist remarks by the main characters, their support for the nuclear family, the on-the-nose commentary regarding conservative strawman arguments, and the fact that it is tactfully released for streaming four days before US election day, I have to call this what it is: liberal propaganda. And we all know who it's targeting: conservatives. Its liberal, misinformed director, Beth de Araújo, states this rather clearly in an interview: "The idea is traditional women, traditional family models, which is the guise for saying, ‘We want strong families,’ meaning ‘We need Aryan families, Aryan Christian families." Ah, here we go again, where every conservative idea is a dog-whistle; every ideal is some thinly veiled racism. Beth seems to be ignoring conservative minorities that have traditional values when making statements like these. Maybe if you're the one that keeps hearing the dog whistle, you are the dog.

The film succeeds in maintaining interest for at least the first 45 minutes, though. Its single-shot feel is highly effective until its characters begin acting just completely stupid in every action. So, for the acting and presentation I'll give the movie a few points and will rate it on the merit of filmmaking, not for its message.

To address the irony of this movie, let's imagine instead a movie of black supremacist commies committing acts of violence against asians. Something that happens statistically at higher rates and is therefore more realistic - but that would be racist, wouldn't it? You couldn't release a movie like that four days before US midterms election and you know it. So instead you affirm the beliefs of white conservatives: that we are condemned and viewed as racist just for existing. Great.

If you're a liberal that is afraid of white people, hate yourself, and hate whites, you will love this movie. It will be "real" and "scary" to you. But the strong points of the movie (acting/pacing) don't offset the propaganda at play.… Expand

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mimmofrier

May 28, 2023

This is honestly one of the worst movies I've seen in a while. Nothing happens in the first hr and when things actually happen you will miss the fist hr of the movie where nothing happened. A super stereotypical portrait of racist white people, pointless movie, useless in every way with zeroThis is honestly one of the worst movies I've seen in a while. Nothing happens in the first hr and when things actually happen you will miss the fist hr of the movie where nothing happened. A super stereotypical portrait of racist white people, pointless movie, useless in every way with zero narrative, no moral, no action and nonstop talking. Going back I would have preferred watching my microwave boiling a cup of water for 1 hr and half... BOOOORING… Expand

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