******************THE MAGDALENE SISTERS************************

[RTKangaMummy]

TONIGHT

10.00pm

CHANNEL 4

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oh god
this film completely slayed me when I saw it, just after I had dd1

me too

so sad

no,nooooo.
It is heartbreaking. I am adopted and it really hit me hard.

Oh that is an amazing film... me and DH rented it when it first came out on DVD and both us wept buckets. And I'm normally fairly stoney-hearted over films. I mean... I laughed at Love Story

soooo good but heart wrenching

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THURSDAY 30 NOVEMBER

Film

The Magdalene Sisters

10:00pm - 12:15am

Channel 4

VIDEO Plus+: 61952295
Subtitles, audio description, widescreen

Religious repression and moral hypocrisy are targeted by writer/director Peter Mullan in this bitter indictment of the Magdalene Asylums - convent laundries that were run like workhouses - into which "fallen women" were forced in order to cleanse their "sins". Following three wayward teenagers sent to one such asylum in the 1960s, Mullan's fictionalised version of actual events keeps soapy sentimentality at bay, thanks mainly to the compelling performances of a young cast of unknowns - Eileen Walsh is especially outstanding as the tragic Crispina. Geraldine McEwan is frighteningly good as the bullying Mother Superior, hoarding money from the sanctified exploitation of the girls, beating them out of spite and turning a blind eye to their sexual abuse at the hands of the priests. Often uncomfortable to watch, Mullan's controversial chronicle is not without flaws in its credibility, but these are compensated for by his sincere intentions and moving depiction of lost souls, so stripped of their dignity that they view this living hell as their only refuge.

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Directed by: Peter Mullan
Filmed in: 2002

Sister Bridget - Geraldine McEwan

Margaret - Anne-Marie Duff

Bernadette - Nora-Jane Noone

Rose / Patricia - Dorothy Duffy

Crispina - Eileen Walsh

Una - Mary Murray

Katy - Britta Smith

Sister Jude - Frances Healy

Sister Clementine - Eithne McGuinness

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This was an amazing film. Eileen Walsh who played Crispina is a hugely talented actress.

RT Kangamummy, I'm a little intrigued by you, do you work in tv or for tv listings or summat? You seem to know everything - all the Celeb (jungle) details before the programme is screened each night. C'mon, spill!!

Ah, hang on... Just read your last post, Kanga, and you mentioned Radio Times... sooo does the RT in your nickname stand for Radio Times? i'm getting there, aren't I?

I subtitled this a while ago () and not sure whether it was worse because I watched it slowly and had to pay attention to every nuance, or better because I was distracted by having to work on it?

(Oh, who am I trying to kid, I was sobbing at my desk!)

i cant watch the beginnning where Rose signs her baby away and is screaming to get him back.

I will never know how all the poor women who went thru this cope. And i was that the last laundry closed in 1996. Makes me ashamed to be catholic at times

Yeah, let's not even get started on the Priests...

My dd was born in 1996. It's amazing to think that as recently as that, the last laundry closed.

mine too mrs m

Not sure if it is any help, as of course these laundries did exist, but the "true story" on which this film is based has been roundly discredited by the author's brothers & sisters.

Not read the book or seen the film mind you.

I think my greataunt was sent to one of these places. I really would like to find out more but it is only in recent years that I have realised. My dad remembers her sitting and crying and then she was sent away.
This was in the early forties and I would really like to find out more. My aunt belongs to this order of nuns - it was never talked about . The film is so sad watched it when I eas pregnant . Not to be reccommmended. Off to gey ds from nursery.

Sorry about spelling

crumpet I think you are getting two things mizxed up.
there is a biographical book called Kathy's Story about being imprisoned in the Magdelene laundries, and the author's family have said that the accounts is not true in several respects (
this film isn't based on that book, though, but on the accounts of several other survivors. About 30,000 women and girls were held in these places. There are plenty of stories to choose from.

Missed this - my Gran gave birth in an unmarried mothers home (raped)... similar to the laundries

Just read Kathy's Story - I had it in the back of my mind it had been discredited though. To my mind it doesn't really matter if that account is true - there are so many heartbreaking stories about the laundries that it could easily have been one of their lives

is Kathys story good? I saw it in Asda now its in paperback and thought I might read it. Not sure how difficult it would be to read though, or whether the fact that its been discredited would change my view of the book.

Like others have said regardless of whether the one-off storytellers are stretching the truth, thousands of poor young women were subjected to the horrors of the laundries

Very easy (but painful) to read

this book
saddest book ever

is the saddest book that i have ever read, i sobbed and sobbed.

bloody awful, and a disgrace that this was allowed to happen up until very recently.

this book haunted me.

I saw this film a few months ago and sobbed my heart out

I also saw "A song for a Raggy Boy" ... anyone seen that?