> Set in the small Irish town of New Ross, circa 1985, the film follows Bill Furlong (Murphy), a good-hearted coal merchant who’s confronted with the secret abuses happening inside his local convent. These incidents are drawn from the real-life Magdalene Laundries, in which Catholic nuns around Ireland separated unmarried, pregnant, isolated women from their children, until the last one closed in 1996. Bill wrestles with both taking on his community’s most powerful institution and his own past, thinking about the death of his mother and the life of his daughters in the context of this horrific new discovery.
Professional-Trash23 on
Don’t want to see this. Depressing. Know all about it already.
mynosemynose on
Really looking forward to this. The novella is a “nice” (nice being the wrong word) way to wile away an hour in an afternoon. Very interested to see how they pull a feature length film from it though.
peon47 on
I’m not saying this movie doesn’t need to be made; it absolutely does.
But could Ireland at least *try* to make a happy movie once? If our filmmakers aren’t putting out movies about institutional abuse, they’re about crushing poverty or Mrs. Brown.
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cjamcmahon1 on
great for Claire Keegan, great for Cillian Murphy, great for them all but boy am I tired of films about Bad Old Ireland. I’m not one of these ‘don’t talk the country down’ kinda guys but could we have another theme that isn’t about the horrors of Catholicism
JoyousDiversion2 on
Donkey jackets are going to be at London Fashion Week after this
Alpha-Nozzle on
Cool to see Cillian Murphy doing a comedy.
AnnyWeatherwaxxx on
Loved this book. Really looking forward to seeing this.
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> Set in the small Irish town of New Ross, circa 1985, the film follows Bill Furlong (Murphy), a good-hearted coal merchant who’s confronted with the secret abuses happening inside his local convent. These incidents are drawn from the real-life Magdalene Laundries, in which Catholic nuns around Ireland separated unmarried, pregnant, isolated women from their children, until the last one closed in 1996. Bill wrestles with both taking on his community’s most powerful institution and his own past, thinking about the death of his mother and the life of his daughters in the context of this horrific new discovery.
Don’t want to see this. Depressing. Know all about it already.
Really looking forward to this. The novella is a “nice” (nice being the wrong word) way to wile away an hour in an afternoon. Very interested to see how they pull a feature length film from it though.
I’m not saying this movie doesn’t need to be made; it absolutely does.
But could Ireland at least *try* to make a happy movie once? If our filmmakers aren’t putting out movies about institutional abuse, they’re about crushing poverty or Mrs. Brown.
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great for Claire Keegan, great for Cillian Murphy, great for them all but boy am I tired of films about Bad Old Ireland. I’m not one of these ‘don’t talk the country down’ kinda guys but could we have another theme that isn’t about the horrors of Catholicism
Donkey jackets are going to be at London Fashion Week after this
Cool to see Cillian Murphy doing a comedy.
Loved this book. Really looking forward to seeing this.