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Watch: Irina Palm 2007 123movies, Full Movie Online – Maggie, a 60-year-old widow, desperately needs some money to pay for a medical treatment for her ill grandson, Olly. After one attempt at trying to find a job, she finds herself roaming the streets of London Soho. Her eye is caught by a small poster in the window of a shop called “Sexy World” which reads: “Hostess wanted”. Too desperate and lost to realize what she does she enters. Micky, the owner, is embarrassed at first, but intrigued by Maggie, he decides to have fun and offers her the job. Her colleague, Luisa, shows her how to give a hand-job through hole in a wall (glory hole) and after the first hesitation, she quickly develops good skills. She uses Irina Palm as her stage name. However, she keeps her work secret from friends and family, which leads to uncomfortable situations. She, who applies herself in order to keep her job, fascinates Mickey..
Plot: Maggie, a quiet retiring grandmother, finds herself helpless as her grandson’s health deteriorates. When one last chance appears, but money is desperately short, Maggie acts to raise the cash in a fashion that surprises everyone but her…
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Ratings:

	7.2/10 Votes: 7,553
	66% | RottenTomatoes
	55/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 133 Popularity: 6.966 | TMDB

Reviews:

The Practicalities of Desperation
IRINA PALM may be a film too many people will overlook, thinking it either empty headed or pornographic. But word of mouth should correct those misconceptions, as this little quiet film is a tender story of an aging woman’s sacrifices and healthy outlook in the face of adversity. IRINA PALM is that happy marriage of comedy and drama, a heartwarming tale that leaves the viewer with both a smile and a tear.

Written by Director Sam Garbarski with Martin Herron and Phillipe Blasband, IRINA PALM is the story of a widowed grandmother Maggie (Marianne Faithful in a luminous performance) whose young grandson Ollie (Corey Burke) is gravely ill. Maggie’s son Tom (Kevin Bishop) and daughter-in-law Sarah (Siobhan Hewlett) cannot afford the transfer from England to Australia where the young lad could undergo curative treatment. Maggie decides she must find a job – a daunting task for an older woman with no particular job training – to make the treatment affordable. After numerous rejections from employment agencies, she spies a Sex Shop advertising for ‘hostesses’. Thinking that designation means serving tea, etc, she enters the shady establishment and is interviewed by the owner Miki (Miki Manojlovic), a gentle man who gently describes the type of employment: Maggie would sit in a room and provide simple masturbation through a glory hole for anonymous clients. At first shocked by the job description, she in desperation investigates the business with the help of her soon to be best friend Luisa (Dorka Gryllus), and accepts the job with reservations. To her surprise (and the surprise of Miki and Luisa) Maggie gains a loyal following of customers, so much so that she is given the name ‘Irina Palm’.

Keeping her employment a secret from everyone, she is the brunt of gossip from her old cronies and when she gives the money from her job to her son Tom without revealing its source, she causes a riff in the family. Maggie is courted by other sex shop owners who offer higher pay, but she remains faithful to Miki who advanced her the money for Ollie’s trip to Australia. Tom stalks his mother to her workplace, discovers the source of her income, and explodes with anger and embarrassment that his mother would stoop to such depths. But Maggie’s role as Irina Palm has given her confidence and also opened her heart not only to her grandson’s future but to her own happiness as well. The ending may be expected by some, but will warm the hearts of everyone.

There are many moments of humor – Maggie’s learning her trade, her ultimate confession to her cronies as to her occupation, etc – and this lightness makes the dramatic message more powerful. Faithful is extraordinarily fine in this difficult role, but the entire cast is sensitively responsive to the screenplay and to director Garbarski’s vision. This is a film to cherish. Highly recommended. Grady Harp

Palm this one off…
The excessive provincialism of this film is summed up by a headline shown outside a newsagents at around the midway point: ‘MP Caught in Strip Club!’

So what??? Yes; I know in real life the tabloids might make a fuss, but the headline is more likely to be: ‘MP in Sex Shame’, or something like that. (it’s actually purported to be The Guardian, where one thinks ‘MP forced to resign over impropriety’ would have seemed more fitting. The film instead elects to travel down the route of easy sensationalism.)

The scenario was playing to the perception of laughably clichéd ‘Middle England Outrage!’, right the way through. The aged may have no wish to join the ranks of the sex industry, but I bet most who were desperate for money would not be so comically shocked as Maggie was, in the beginning.

Then you have the stereotypical club boss, behaving as if he’s been transported straight from a Grand Theft Auto video game until the equally unconvincing about-turn of the film’s close; “I bet you can’t even say *bleep*!”. Why is it the automatic and patronising assumption that if someone is old, then they’re entirely innocent in the ways of sex?!

… because the status quo is afraid of sex; afraid of dealing with the subject in a mature manner, so it looks upon facile films like this one as being ‘daring’… This is the equivalent of giggling behind your hands, seaside postcard sauciness, rather than having an open and frank discussion.

If you want to watch a mature film about exploitation and sacrifice, watch “Breaking the Waves”, or maybe “Dirty Pretty Things” – not this bandwagon-jumping stunt exercise…

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 43 min (103 min)
Budget 4500000
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Comedy, Drama
Director Sam Garbarski
Writer Philippe Blasband, Martin Herron
Actors Marianne Faithfull, Predrag ‘Miki’ Manojlovic, Kevin Bishop
Country Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg, United Kingdom, France
Awards 7 wins & 7 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.66 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory Dejonghe, Kortrijk, Belgium
Film Length 2,835 m (Germany), 2,859 m (Portugal, 35 mm)
Negative Format N/A
Cinematographic Process N/A
Printed Film Format 35 mm