The Magdalene Sisters
Synopsis
This film is from the point of view of four of these young women in the 1960s, an era mistakenly seen by some as a time of unchallenged female liberation. These young Catholic women find themselves in an almost medieval nightmare whilst the outside world tacitly (or in some cases actively) supports a theocratic state. It looks at how their personalities develop for better and for worse in an environment controlled and dominated by celibate women, servants of God, Brides of Christ. In their own ways the girls refuse to be beaten, but what victory is there if they remain imprisoned as little more than slaves? One gets out in a heartbreakingly banal fashion, one is imprisoned in a mental asylum, two finally rebel, run away, escape.
It is a fictional film that unfortunately happens to be true.
Details
- Year
- 2002
- Type of film
- Features
- Running time
- 157 mins
- Format
- 35mm Kodak
- Director
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Peter Mullan
- Producer
- Alan J.Wands
- Editor
- Colin Monie
- Screenwriter
- Peter Mullan
- Director of Photography
- Nigel Willoughby
- Sound
- Colin Nicolson
- Music
- Craig Armstrong
- Principal cast
- Geraldine McEwan, Anne-Marie Duff, Nora-Jane Noone, Dorothy Duffy, Eileen Walsh, Mary Murray, Britta Smith, Frances Healy, Eitane McGuinness
Genre
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
P.F.P. Films Ltd
Contact: Frances HigsonFlat 1
217 Kenmure Street
Glasgow G41 2LP
UK
T 00 44 (0)141 423 0213
Sales Company
Wildbunch (a division of StudioCanal France)
231 Portobello RoadLondon W11 1LT
UK
T 00 44 (0)20 7792 9791
mata@bluelight.co.uk
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