Film: A quiet little gem in a noisy world

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Eoghan Mac Giolla Bhríde in Silence.

Reviewed: Silence

**Directed by Pat Collins**

**Selected cinemas, cert G**

**Rating: 4/5**

Tranquility is not a quality much valued in cinema at any time, never mind during the cacophonous summer season where the air is filled with exploding migraines in surround-sound. Cork-based documentarian Pat Collins's first dramatic feature **Silence** is, as the title suggests, a film about the search for quietude in the modern world.

Beautiful, delicate and profound, Collins combines fiction, observation ...