The Magdalene Sisters 2002 123movies

Watch: The Magdalene Sisters 2002 123movies, Full Movie Online – A thoroughly mind-provoking film about 3 young women who, under tragic circumstances, see themselves cast away to a Magdalene Asylum for young women in 1964. One of many like institutions, the asylums are run like prisons and young girls are forced to do workhouse laundry and hard labor. The asylum, one of many that existed in theocratic Catholic Ireland, is for supposedly ‘fallen’ women. Here, young girls are imprisoned indefinitely and endure agonizing punishments and a long, harsh working system which leaves them physically drained and mentally damaged. As the girls bond together, it soon becomes clear that the only way out of the Magdalene convent is to escape, but with twisted Sister Bridget running the wing, any chances seem limited….
Plot: Four women are given into the custody of the Magdalene sisterhood asylum to correct their sinful behavior: Crispina and Rose have given birth to a premarital child, Margaret got raped by her cousin and the orphan Bernadette had been repeatedly caught flirting with the boys. All have to work in a laundry under the strict supervision of the nuns, who break their wills through sadistic punishment.
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Ratings:

	7.7/10 Votes: 27,453
	91% | RottenTomatoes
	83/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 334 Popularity: 12.986 | TMDB

Reviews:

Dirty washing in public
Peter Mullan’s (2002) film is based primarily upon the TV 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 No one), 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.

Makes you want to punch a nun…
This grueling movie is painful to watch. But religion is not the culprit, it’s just a permission slip for any screwed up, greedy culture to destroy the spirits of the young (lest they have a better life than it’s leaders did), while bilking a constituency out of it’s money. This from a viewer who finds all religion despicable. No religion ever went broke teaching it’s flock how to judge and dismiss a sub-set of the culture via shallow, hateful criteria that can be taught before a child can even learn an ounce of critical thinking. Teaching you to loathe and distrust yourself is another highly-prized device for behavioral control. The utmost goal for insecure authority figures (parents, nuns) is expedient unquestioning obedience, sometimes for no greater reason that so one doesn’t lose face.

I am part-Irish. My upbringing was full of the American version of the cruel nonsense shown in this movie. I associate many negative qualities with being Irish. To overcome the junk I was taught has taken about thirty years, but I’ve done it.

I am sure there are lovely light-hearted, thoughtful Irish folks out there. I don’t know them. All my Irish relatives are unbearable, over-aggressive (or passive-aggressive) and vindictive. A friend who also has an Irish parent feels similarly about the Italian half of her family (instead). Go figure. So my distaste is personal.

Currently the world is tearing itself to pieces over which screwed-up magical belief system will hold the reins of secular power. Within 20 years America will be fighting a second civil war.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 54 min (114 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 20957001
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Drama
Director Peter Mullan
Writer Peter Mullan
Actors Eileen Walsh, Dorothy Duffy, Nora-Jane Noone
Country United Kingdom, Ireland
Awards Nominated for 2 BAFTA 18 wins & 15 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory Digitalfilm Lab, Soho Images, London, UK
Film Length 3,268 m (Sweden)
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak)
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm