Ipswich Film Society

Ipswich Film Society - 2009/10 Season

The Magdalene Sisters (2002)

2008/09 Season

THE MAGDALENE SISTERS

UK/Ireland 2002 (15)
119 minutes
Directed by Peter Mullan

Hollywood Film Theatre - 10 November 2008 - 7.30pm
Based on true events, this tells of three young women in Ireland in the 60s, forced by circumstances to work in a laundry employed by women considered to be morally unsound, and run by Catholic nuns. Well acted with moments of black humour this is a justifiably angry film.
AUDIENCE COMMENTS: A good piece of film making documenting a mysogenistic culture that had moved on from burning "threatening" women at the stake, but only just; Still as shocking as the first time I saw it. People can be so cruel in the name of a loving God; Highly significant that Bernadette became a hairdresser and that Margaret remained a devout Catholic for the rest of her life since at the words "deliver us from evil" she was; A horrifying story. I thought the inquisition ended a long time before 1964; A classic from the genre of miserable Irish films. At least it wasn't about the "troubles".

The Magdalene Sisters (2002)

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