‘The Quiet Girl’: Irish Oscar nominee is eloquent in its silence

In a world of noise — and noisy, overstuffed movies, nowhere better epitomized than in this year’s crop of Oscar nominees — the Academy Award-nominated “The Quiet Girl” stands out. Pitted against such other soft-spoken gems as “Close” and “Eo” in the relatively hushed and meditative corner-category of best foreign language film, this lovely Irish drama, featuring a bit of English but mostly told in the lilting Irish tongue, won’t overwhelm you with subtitles, for no other reason than its most powerful moments are unspoken.