This is the hardest movie to watch but none more necessary. The actresses in this film are fantastic and are called upon to go to some dark places. It's a chilling film about cruelty. It focuses on the placement of young women into slavery supported by government and church who are raised to become the next generation of perpetrators. It broke my heart. Yet it's a part of history.

wow. Just...wow. really makes one question one's childhood. that Power Corrupts.

Probably the best movie depiction based on The Christian Nun Laundries back in the 60's. What's shocking about it is that it's actually true. More movies should be made about this!

An excellent film that is based some what on what happened in the Magdalene Laundries in Ireland. At times it's hard to watch as it makes you rage over what the women are put through but well worth watching.

A heart breaking film. Very well acted. The low budget kept me from giving it a 5 star film. But never the less a truly great movie

Peter Mullan's (2002) film is based primarily upon the 온라인카지노추천 documentary 'Sex in a Cold Climate' by Steve Humphries which was first aired on RTE (Ireland) and BBC (England) in 1998. The documentary records the recollections of four Irish women who spent their youth and a good proportion of their adult lives as involuntary guests of uncompromising Roman Catholic nuns. The film is set in a particular example of this institution which, somewhat akin to the English workhouses of the late 19th and early 20th century, became established in Ireland after the Second World War. The Magdelene Laundries took their name from the biblical figure of Mary Magdalene, a 'fallen woman' whom Christ befriended. We join the main heroines of the movie - Margarette (Anne-Marie Duff), Bernadette (Norah-Jane Noone), Rose (Dorothy Duffy) and Crispina (Eileen Walsh) in cameo as their entrance scholarships for the Magdelene Laundry are being sat. What's most uncomfortable about this part of the movie, is trying to work out what's going on. Trying to work out what it is that's being whispered and what will be the upshot of it, and why. At first, it seems like the soundtrack of the film and the contrast have failed. But before long, it becomes obvious that the soundtrack of the film and the contrast have succeeded. The dark and deafening silence surrounding the circumstances under which these young women are being consigned to the unwelcome stewardship of the Magdalene Sisters comes through loud and muted. We follow their induction into the laundry by Sister Bridget (Geraldine McEwan), ably assisted by the Sisters Jude (Frances Healy), Clemantine (Eithne McGuinness) and Augusta (Phyllis MacMahon) who contrive with formally celibate gentlemen like Father Fitzroy (Daniel Costello) to represent a world in which God's greatest ideal is achieved through punishment and penitence. As the film progresses, we begin to understand why it is no accident that these institutions should have been laundries. They could - after all - have been bakeries, dairies, canneries or places where mailbags are sewn. With every garment that passes through the process, unmentionable filth is cleansed - if the Sisters are to be believed. And if the Sisters are to be believed, the sins of the teenagers and the route to Heaven is bound up in hot water, salt and flagellation. And as we follow these unsaintly girls on their hapless journey, we finally learn that salvation is as straightforward as a letter we are not privileged to read and a brother who arrives with a suitcase - as if there is anything that anybody could possibly want to carry away from a place like this. This film is a powerful elegy to the suffering of these unfortunate girls who, constrained to silence for so long, have finally found a voice.

Film that reveals a reality often intentionally forgotten by a church poor in sanctity. Unfortunately, even today, these themes are very current in a church that is less and less close to the teachings of Christ (sexual scandals and pedophilia).

An interesting true story that is well performed and executed. Made me read into the events that happened with these girls

Not an exciting film. Skip the film and read about this crazy place.

Truths about a tragic ireland

7.9/10, my review: http://wp.me/p1eXom-2AJ

Shocking as its based on the truth.

Moving and disturbing story about the actions of a society and church abusing powerless young women.

Harrowing tale of how patriarchy and religious extremism can convince the society it's perfectly fine to lock up women to brainwash them out of 'indecent conduct'. Absolutely disgusting scenes of mental and physical abuse from the hands of the nuns. Not many films get me so wound up about the events unfolding on-screen - those asylums really weren't much better than concentration camps. Not to mention the creepy, fanatical nuns with their religion-driven contempt for anything but penance whose screen presence gives some of the best Hollywood villains a run for their money.

Terrible these things used to happen to women

Decent watch. Nothing all that special but seemed appropriate for the dreary weather.

Cover art aside, was able to buy a used rental copy for a buck, and oh my goodness! This film is gritty, intriguing and most of all disturbing. This film made me cry, I honestly had no clue what I was in for. The acting felt genuine and I say that because I felt the pain every actor brought forth. "You're not a man of God". - " Crispina"

Gritty film that tells the true story of the mistreatment of Irelands unwed Mothers by the Catholic church. A gripping film with a talented cast. A truly shocking story of the very recent past.

I severely over-estimated my interest on this occassion. Regardless of the insight into Irish female catholic asylums and decent actress performances, the constant unintentional comparisons made with better 'prison' movies diminishes its ability to evoke any strong emotion.

engrossing chick flick