a little something for one and all. The Magdalene Sisters: A controversial winner of the golden Lion at the 2002 venice film festival, Peter mullan's Magdalene sisters establishes the Actor/director as a vital and potent force in british Cinema. Set in Ireland during the 1960's, the film dramatises the lives of three young women sent to a catholic Church/Irish government sanctioned Magdalene laundry for fallen women as a punishment for their 'sins'. Cut off from their families by the sadistic nuns who run the establishment, the young women enter a world of insufferable pain and torment. A savage indictment of a vicious and uncaring system that emphasizes religious dogma above all else. The Magdalene sisters is a powerful and profoundly humane statement and an essential viewing experience.
Opens in Brighton on the 21st Febuary....elsewhere check press for details. xxx Clive
