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IFF ST.PATRICK’S DAY – PRESS REVIEW
Minister Michael Ring and Ambassador Patrick Hennessy will open the Special St.Patrick’s Day IrishFilmFesta
The Secret of Kells and a master class by director Nora Twomey at IrishFilmFesta
Screening in 3D of The Boy in The Bubble and award to Kealan O’Rourke
The Magdalene Sisters (GB, Irl, 2002)
Director: Peter Mullan; script: Peter Mullan; cinematography: Nigel Willoughby; editing: Colin Monie; production design: Mark Leese; costume design: Trisha Biggar; music: Craig Armstrong; casting: Margaret McGowan; producer: Frances Higson; production company: PFP Films; Italian distribution: Lucky Red; duration: 119’.
Cast: Geraldine McEwan, Anne-Marie Duff, Nora-Jane Noone, Dorothy Duffy, Eileen Walsh, Mary Murray, Britta Smith, Rebecca Walsh, Eamonn Owens, Chris Simpson, Daniel Costello
Synopsis
In Ireland, up to and beyond the Sixties, young women ‘fallen from grace’ were locked up in the Magdalene Asylums, lager-laundries run by the Catholic Church. Based on true stories, the film reconstructs the tragic experience of four of them, on the eve of the emancipation of women. Winner of the Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival 2002
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