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...Peter Mullan's The Magdalene Sisters, which won the top prize at last year's Venice Film Festival, is set in Dublin in the '60s, when girls who had committed no crime more serious than naive sauciness, or who had been raped or impregnated, were sent to convent Borstals run by some very nasty nuns. "Here," one sister tells a girl, "you will be saved from eternal damnation." In fact, the place is a hell on Eire. The nuns, using their charges as unpaid laborers in a sweatshop laundry, flog the girls, make ribald fun of their naked bodies, allow...
...Adolf the aspiring painter) plumbed the cinema's inexhaustible fascination with Mr. Bad. And when you can't blame one person, blame the culture. Among the festival's most praised films were two parables of hypocrisy set in the 1950s and '60s: Todd Haynes' Far from Heaven and Peter Mullan's The Magdalene Sisters. Far from Heaven is inspired by those glossy '50s romances produced by Ross Hunter and directed by Douglas Sirk. Haynes takes the alcoholic husband from Written on the Wind, the race mixing of Imitation of Life and the matron-in-love-with-her-gardener plot...
...idea for his latest film, The Magdalene Sisters, from a documentary he happened upon while channel surfing. If ever creative inspiration isn't so close at hand, writer-director Peter Mullan can look to his own bleak Glaswegian upbringing. The visuals would certainly be striking. Mullan's family led an outwardly prosperous life in a large pillared house that his mother instructed him and his seven siblings to tell people was owned, not rented. The lie fostered an illusion of affluence, but behind the façade, says Mullan, "we didn't even have any furniture. We were dirt poor...
...Crimson kept it even for the first 10 minutes, but in the 11th minute the Jays split the Harvard defense with a ball out of the midfield and Creighton forward Brian Mullan connected with the back of the net only seconds later...
That being said, there were three amazing things about the film. First, the two child actresses are phenomenal. Bella Riza (Bea) and Carrie Mullan (Lucy) remain natural and true throughout the entire movie. I haven't seen child acting like this since Anna Paquin in The Piano. Secondly, the male lead, Said Taghmaoui, was fascinating to watch. He can speak to the camera with a simple lifting of his eyebrows. And lastly, as I said before, the cinematography is impeccable--think of the breath-taking desert shots in The English Patient and add some mysteriousness; it's entrancing...