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Released Year: 2002
Runtime: 119 minutes
Genre: Drama
Directors: Peter Mullan
Casts: Peter Mullan, Stephen McCole, Nora-Jane Noone, Anne-Marie Duff, Geraldine McEwan, Chris Patrick-Simpson, Eileen Walsh, Dorothy Duffy, Mary Murray, Eamonn Owens, Britta Smith, Eithne McGuinness, Frances Healy, Phyllis MacMahon, Daniel Costello, Rebecca Walsh, Sean Colgan
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(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
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Christian Science Monitor -
A pungent, powerful film that points an accusing finger not at religious beliefs but at flawed human institutions. It also targets social and cultural mores that are almost medieval in their patriarchal bias against girls and women.
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Boston Globe -
Blistering and brilliant work.
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Slate -
Both a masterpiece and a holy hell: Watching it, you feel you're being punished for a crime you didn't commit. Which puts you, come to think of it, in the same frame of mind as those poor Magdalene girls.
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer -
It is passionate and angry and rousing where you might expect it to become numbing and depressing.
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Variety -
Mullan's increased maturity as a director is evident in his skill at manipulating light and dark dramatic tones, and shifting between moods of anger and plaintive melancholy.
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The Magdalene Sisters (2002)
Four women are given into the custody of the Magdalene sisterhood asylum to correct their sinful behavior: Crispina and Rose have given birth to a premarital child, Margaret got raped by her cousin and the orphan Bernadette had been repeatedly caught flirting with the boys. All have to work in a laundry under the strict supervision of the nuns, who break their wills through sadistic punishment.
The Magdalene Sisters (2002)
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...
Information
Released Year: 2002
Runtime: 119 minutes
Genre: Drama
Directors: Peter Mullan
Casts: Peter Mullan, Stephen McCole, Nora-Jane Noone, Anne-Marie Duff, Geraldine McEwan, Chris Patrick-Simpson, Eileen Walsh, Dorothy Duffy, Mary Murray, Eamonn Owens, Britta Smith, Eithne McGuinness, Frances Healy, Phyllis MacMahon, Daniel Costello, Rebecca Walsh, Sean Colgan
Storyline
Four women are given into the custody of the Magdalene sisterhood asylum to correct their sinful behavior: Crispina and Rose have given birth to a premarital child, Margaret got raped by her cousin and the orphan Bernadette had been repeatedly caught flirting with the boys. All have to work in a laundry under the strict supervision of the nuns, who break their wills through sadistic punishment.
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Reviews
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Christian Science Monitor -
A pungent, powerful film that points an accusing finger not at religious beliefs but at flawed human institutions. It also targets social and cultural mores that are almost medieval in their patriarchal bias against girls and women.
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Boston Globe -
Blistering and brilliant work.
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Slate -
Both a masterpiece and a holy hell: Watching it, you feel you're being punished for a crime you didn't commit. Which puts you, come to think of it, in the same frame of mind as those poor Magdalene girls.
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer -
It is passionate and angry and rousing where you might expect it to become numbing and depressing.
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Variety -
Mullan's increased maturity as a director is evident in his skill at manipulating light and dark dramatic tones, and shifting between moods of anger and plaintive melancholy.
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Four women are given into the custody of the Magdalene sisterhood asylum to correct their sinful behavior: Crispina and Rose have given birth to a premarital child, Margaret got raped by her cousin and the orphan Bernadette had been repeatedly caught flirting with the boys. All have to work in a laundry under the strict supervision of the nuns, who break their wills through sadistic punishment.
Four women are given into the custody of the Magdalene sisterhood asylum to correct their sinful behavior: Crispina and Rose have given birth to a premarital child, Margaret got raped by her cousin and the orphan Bernadette had been repeatedly caught flirting with the boys. All have to work in a laundry under the strict supervision of the nuns, who break their wills through sadistic punishment.
Four women are given into the custody of the Magdalene sisterhood asylum to correct their sinful behavior: Crispina and Rose have given birth to a premarital child, Margaret got raped by her cousin and the orphan Bernadette had been repeatedly caught flirting with the boys. All have to work in a laundry under the strict supervision of the nuns, who break their wills through sadistic punishment.
Four women are given into the custody of the Magdalene sisterhood asylum to correct their sinful behavior: Crispina and Rose have given birth to a premarital child, Margaret got raped by her cousin and the orphan Bernadette had been repeatedly caught flirting with the boys. All have to work in a laundry under the strict supervision of the nuns, who break their wills through sadistic punishment.