The Magdalene Sisters
119 minutes,
UK (2002), 15
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(4.6 / 152 votes)
(4.6 / 152 votes)
Set in Ireland in 1964, Peter Mullan's brutal sophomore effort follows three young girls after they are sent to one of the Catholic Church's Magdalene Asylums. Ostensibly atoning for their 'sins', they are humiliated and abused by the nuns in charge
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The Magdalene Sisters: It was little surprise that Peter Mullan's follow-up to his directorial debut - the 1998 blackly comic grief story Orphans - should win the coveted Golden Lion at 2002's Venice Film Festival. The Magdelene Sisters - which was inspired by the Channel 4 documentary 'Sex In A Cold Climate' - tells a harrowing tale that deserves to be heard...
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