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	The Magdalene Sisters - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Magdalene Sisters is a 2002 film, written and directed by Peter Mullan, about teenage girls who were sent to Magdalene Asylums, otherwise known as the Magdalen Laundries.
		Margaret was sent there by her family after she was raped by a cousin at a wedding; Rose was sent by her family after giving birth to a child born out of wedlock; Bernadette was sent there from the orphanage in which she lived for flirting with some neighborhood boys.
		Their arrival at the laundry, their experiences there (which at times involved abuse), and the different ways in which they eventually leave the asylum are shown (the story of a fourth girl, Crispina, is also shown).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Magdalene_Sisters (234 words)

	Reeling: the Movie Review Show's review of The Magdalene Sisters
		In the mid-nineteenth century, the Magdalene asylums were established as a place where fallen women could go to literally wash away their sins laboring unpaid in a laundry business that benefited the Catholic Church.
		What is most horrific about Mullan's look at the Magdalene asylums is that the Church had so strong a grip on societies relatively late into the twentieth century that parents would be complicit in the barbaric treatment of their own children, all in the name of God.
		Until the last one was closed in 1996 the Magdalene Convents were scattered throughout Catholic Ireland and their sole purpose was to house the outcast girls of Papist society, committing them to a life of grueling work, deprivation, humiliation and unhappiness.
	www.reelingreviews.com /themagdalenesisters.htm (1161 words)

	EI > Reviews > The Magdalene Sisters (2003)
		His film “The Magdalene Sisters” shows us how that might just happen because institutionalization in the name of God (or, at least, one group’s interpretation of what God wants) can have a very damaging effect on the mind’s and very souls of those trapped within.
		Sister Bridget is strong and has the capacity to physically abuse, but it is the mental abuse that is longer lasting.
		“Magdalene” is buoyed by wonderful supporting performances highlighted by Eileen Walsh as Crispina, the simple girl who hopes to one day reunite with her little boy also born to her out of wedlock.
	www.einsiders.com /reviews/archives/magdalenesisters.php (909 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film \| Reviews \| The Magdalene Sisters
		The Magdalene Laundries were institutions sponsored and maintained by the Catholic Church in Ireland for the incarceration of young women thought to be a moral danger to themselves and others - unmarried mothers or simply girls who were considered hussies and whores, no better than they should be.
		Margaret, Rose and Bernadette are entrusted to the untender mercies of Sister Bridget, a simply glorious performance from Geraldine McEwan, the glitteringly cruel and cantankerous empress of emotional sadism.
		Two girls get their bare legs whipped with a cane by Sister Bridget who, on another occasion, switches to the strap to give Rose a merciless thrashing which is interrupted by the news that an elderly inmate has died.
	film.guardian.co.uk /News_Story/Critic_Review/Guardian_Film_of_the_week/0,4267,899351,00.html (883 words)

	The Magdalene Sisters
		The Magdalene Sisters is a disturbingly realistic account of three women and their tortured lives inside the walls of abuse.
		Three girls from different walks of life are abandoned by their families and forced into lifeong servitude at The Magdalene Laundries, the asylum for unchaste women run by the Sisters of Magdalene order of the Irish Catholic Church.
		The original Glasgow Magdalene Asylum was built in 1812 as a precautionary measure against health risks associated with prostitution and sexually transmitted diseases.
	www.cinescene.com /reviews/magdalene.htm (1010 words)

	Reviews at MCN - Magdalene Sisters
		The operation run by the Sisters was 100% manual with large vats of boiling water, miles of clotheslines for air drying and heavy non-electric irons.
		It is the task of Sister Bridget (Geraldine McEwan) to grind down her charges to a drone-like complacence one sees in the elderly Katy (Britta Smith) who is too old to work and will die quietly within the sacred walls.
		The Magdalene Sisters has an unforced pace and views the situation from a quiet distance that is all the more sinister as he moves in on its principals.
	www.moviecitynews.com /reviews/magdalene_sisters.html (552 words)

	Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly . FILM REVIEW . The Magdalene Sisters . August 22, 2003 \| PBS
		They were sentenced by their parents and pastors, with neither due process nor defense, to slave in the Magdalene Laundries, established by the Catholic Church to cleanse the sins of impurity from these women's souls.
		And the Sisters of Mercy, who ran at least three of the laundries, apologized to the victims.
		THE MAGDALENE SISTERS may not be the summer blockbuster, but it is another hit -- for a Church hierarchy already shamed by scandal.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/religionandethics/week651/review.html (521 words)

	Metroactive Movies \| 'The Magdalene Sisters'
		Some 30,000 women passed through the Magdalene Asylums between the time the convent-run laundries were set up in 1848 and when they were closed in 1996.
		Sister Bridget is thrilled to her bones at the one big event in the interned girls' life.
		What happened to the women in the Magdalene Asylums may have only been possible under a government that was tied up with its church, and that's why the worst Catholic scandals have emerged in such different places as Ireland, Quebec and Boston.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/08.21.03/magdalene-0334.html (863 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - The Magdalene Sisters
		Her holiness is matched only by her ruthlessness, and yet there are a few moments where we see her regret; never in front of any of the girls, and you get the feeling that even she is unaware of it.
		She was required to express regret, even to cry at one point, and yet you always saw the emptiness behind her eyes, and the coldness in the very set of her shoulders.
		While the Magdalene institutions began as a way to rehabilitate women who sold their bodies for money, by the 1940s they were taking in any sort of wayward female, and the definition of "wayward" was broad.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/magdalenesisters.php (1553 words)

	RTE.ie Entertainment - Magdalene Sisters storms Irish box office
		Award winning feature film 'The Magdalene Sisters' is set to be the biggest Irish film of 2002.
		'The Magdalene Sisters' charts several years in the young lives of four fallen women who find themselves incarcerated in an Irish Magdalene laundry during the 1960s.
		Directed by Peter Mullan, 'The Magdalene Sisters' has been nominated for Best European Film at the European Film Academy Awards which take place on Saturday 7 December.
	www.rte.ie /arts/2002/1118/magdalene.html (135 words)

	Metromix. Movie review: 'The Magdalene Sisters'
		A fierce, brilliant film that breaks (and then mends) your heart, Peter Mullan's "The Magdalene Sisters" is based on the life stories of three young women sent in the mid-'60s to the convent laundries of the Magdalene Asylums, run by a sisterhood named, ironically enough, for the ex-whore who became a follower of Christ.
		The entire cast of "Magdalene Sisters," down to the smallest parts (one of which, a cruel father, is played by Mullan himself), is superb, nearly flawless.
		But Sister Bridget makes this movie, just as Charles Laughton's Captain Bligh made the 1935 "Mutiny on the Bounty." She becomes the perfect embodiment of an evil system, the Magdalene Asylums in full flower.
	metromix.chicagotribune.com /movies/mmx-030813movies-review-mw-magdalene,0,4655742.story (1231 words)

	Magdalene Sisters
		Within the church-run Magdalene laundries, these women were forced into unbearable institutional servitude in order to cleanse themselves of the sins of which they had been accused.
		Peter Mullen apparently saw a documentary which dealt with the Magdalene laundries, entitled "Sex in a Cold Climate" (which is a bonus feature of the DVD,) and was so appalled and disgusted by the treatment of the women forced into servitude for "the sake of their souls", that he wrote and directed The Magdalene Sisters.
		The casting of relative unknown actresses in the roles of the three young girls was a stroke of genius by Mullen, as it leaves the viewer free to believe in the girls without having the baggage of having seen them in other roles previously.
	www.gothicrevue.com /MagdaleneSisters.html (472 words)

	AboutFilm.com - The Magdalene Sisters (2002)
		The Magdalene Sisters is one of those films where there is no danger of confusing the protagonists and the antagonists.
		Except in the instance of Katy, a woman confined and brainwashed by the Sisters for so long (forty years) that she has become their most loyal tool, there is little exploration of the sexual repression and religious paranoia that could create such creatures as these sadistic nuns.
		Although The Magdalene Sisters is too busy being outraged to leave audiences with anything more complex than, "I can't believe that happened!" it is difficult to envision a more powerful portrayal of the punishments some women endured just for being sexual creatures.
	www.aboutfilm.com /movies/m/magdalenesisters.htm (1050 words)

	'The Magdalene Sisters'
		Now comes "The Magdalene Sisters," set in the 1960s, which looks at young women imprisoned (there's no other word for it) in a network of Irish laundries presided over by an order of nuns whose idea of punishment was far harsher than a ruler across the knuckles.
		Both "Evelyn" and "The Magdalene Sisters" are based on actual events, although the former is lighter in tone -- despite some edgy scenes, it betrays more than a touch o' the blarney.
		When Sister Bridget interviews the three new girls, she is counting money all the while.
	www.post-gazette.com /movies/20030829magdalene0829fnp3.asp (700 words)

	The Magdalene Sisters; Mullan's Scathing Indictment of the Church's Not-So-Distant Past
		"The Magdalene Sisters" is an emotionally pungent, sociologically scathing look at horrors not only sanctioned by the Roman Catholic Church but born and bred in its theological bosom.
		Not surprisingly, the strongest suit of "The Magdalene Sisters" is its acting, always skillful and sincere, if a bit too fervid at times.
		The achievement of Mullan's film is to unmask the sexual dread and patriarchal animus of both the unmerciful sisters and the larger society -- one pillar of which was the Catholic establishment -- that supported and encouraged their appalling work until an alarmingly short time ago.
	www.indiewire.com /movies/movies_030804mag.html (719 words)

	OFFOFFOFF film review THE MAGDALENE SISTERS Irish movie by Peter Mullan with Geraldine McEwan, Anne-Marie Duff, ...
		The real horror film of the summer is "The Magdalene Sisters," Peter Mullan's prize-winning excoriation of the Catholic Church's institutional enslavement of thousands of so-called "wayward" young women from the mid-1800s to 1996.
		That's the reason Bernadette (Nora-Jane Noone), a vivacious orphan is spirited off to the Magdalenes, while Margaret (Anne-Marie Duff) is sent by her family after a cousin rapes her.
		The nuns (as personified by Sister Bridget in a scalding performance by veteran Geraldine McEwan) are sterile, cruel bullies who torture the girls and also turn a blind eye when sexually predatory priests routinely rape their wards.
	www.offoffoff.com /film/2003/magdalenesisters.php (1048 words)

	Latino Review
		You might remember Mullan for his work as an actor in films like "My Name is Joe" "The Claim" or the upcoming "Young Adam." He's crafted an incredible film of the frailties of human nature and yet I was surprised that its distributor, Miramax Films chose to release it in the summer of 2003.
		"The Magdalene Sisters" is the story of the Magdalene Laundries of Ireland, run by the Sisters of Mercy under the Catholic Church.
		As long as their family consents, the nuns can keep them as long as they desire, as evident in the fact that there are women residing there that arrived as young girls and are now old women who have been forgotten.
	www.latinoreview.com /films_2003/miramax/themagdalenesisters/review.html (756 words)

	calendarlive.com: MOVIE REVIEW - 'The Magdalene Sisters'
		"The Magdalene Sisters" is a fist of fury, a savage, sledgehammer attack on questionable practices by Ireland's Catholic Church that is so fierce and furious, such a rip-roaring exposé, that the Vatican itself howled in outrage.
		"Magdalene" begins with the back stories of three teenage girls, all of whom were, for different reasons, callously stigmatized and abandoned by their families and deposited in the same asylum one day in 1964.
		Unbending, implacable, sadistic, the sisters forbid conversation during the day and, says one girl, "If they see you getting friendly, they skin you alive." The sisters don't hesitate to abuse their power, even, in perhaps the film's most devastating scene, lining the girls up naked and making humiliating comments about their bodies.
	www.calendarlive.com /printedition/calendar/cl-et-kenny1aug01,0,5174153.story?coll=cl-calendar (1016 words)

	MovieMartyr.com - The Magdalene Sisters
		The Magdalene Sisters to be a far more intelligently provocative and incendiary film than it is. To condemn a movie on moral grounds suggests that the film in question poses a real threat to the groupthink that powers your organization.
		Magdalene would make anyone rethink their stance on the church.
		Every nun in the film, and every individual in a position of power is essentially presented as evil, be they clergy, principal, or parent.
	www.moviemartyr.com /2002/magdalenesisters.htm (683 words)

	The Magdalene Sisters - Movie Review
		The parents hide their eyes in indifference or dismay, sending them into the cruel clutches of the incomparably cruel Sister Bridget (Geraldine McEwan) and her chamber of horrors—a prison run by nuns where beatings, canings, oppressive work conditions, and random cruelties are part of the daily routine.
		Lest there be any doubt of Sister Bridget’s wicked witch nastiness, she’s often seen counting her money and turning a blind eye to the random injustices within her makeshift girl’s prison.
		The Magdalene Sisters is a torture-drone made for a noble cause, but one that seems to feed off of a twisted desire to observe pain for its own sake.
	www.contactmusic.com /new/film.nsf/reviews/themagdalenesisters (496 words)

	Box Office Prophets: The Magdalene Sisters
		One such asylum is the setting of The Magdalene Sisters, the controversial new drama by writer/director Peter Mullan.
		The Magdalene Sisters went on to take the fest's Golden Lion award for Best Film, and has been picked up by Miramax for wider release in early 2003.
		The Magdalene Sisters is the first film credit for a good deal of the young cast, and while Eileen Walsh is billed well below her peers, it is her performance as the tragic Crispina that stands out as the most memorable.
	www.boxofficeprophets.com /moviereviews/magdalenesisters.asp (818 words)

	The Magdalene Sisters
		Most discussions of Peter Mullan's The Magdalene Sisters will probably focus on the extent to which the story that it relates is inspired by truth; the Catholic Church has been predictably swift in its blanket condemnation, while the film's supporters have presented actual "Magdalene Laundry" survivors that attest that the reality was actually much grimmer.
		The picture is a fictional treatment of the forced labour of tens of thousands of "wayward" girls in the convents of the Irish Catholic order of the Sisters of the Magdalene--compelled through intimidation and abuse to literally wash their sins away with backbreaking work scrubbing butcher's whites and the like under Dickensian conditions.
		The Magdalene Sisters finds itself at the centre of several controversies and controversial institutions--bought by Miramax, condemned by the Catholic Church, and perhaps the very definition of a picture with the difficult task of finding its own voice independent of the conflagration.
	filmfreakcentral.net /screenreviews/magdalenesisters.htm (411 words)

	The Magdalene Sisters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In The Magdalene Sisters, Margaret (Anne-Marie Duff) is raped by her cousin at a family wedding, Rose (Dorothy Duffy) bears a child out of wedlock, and Bernadette (Nora-Jane Noone) fraternizes with the local boys outside her orphanage gates.
		Overseeing this inhumanity is the despotic Sister Bridget (a chilling Geraldine McEwan), whose calm cold-heartedness cuts at the very core of these innocent girls, inflicting psychological pain as devastating as any physical punishment.
		The Magdalene Sisters, painfully realized by a cast of relative unknowns, is unrelentingly grim, gruesome and, if you were raised Catholic, frighteningly plausible.
	members.dca.net /dnb/reviews/magdalenesisters.htm (232 words)

	CinemaSpeak.Com - MORAL LAW: An interview with The Magdalene Sisters writer/director Peter Mullan.
		While detained, the women worked and lived in suffocating conditions, all too aware that even the slightest misstep in the quest to atone for their sins could result in violent disciplinary action from the nuns who ran the laundries.
		It excludes the Magdalene, and the reason it excludes the Magdalene women is because they supposedly went there voluntarily." According to Mullan, the victims realize that monetary overtures can't begin to compensate for the amount of suffering caused by their confinement in the Magdalene Laundries.
		While his tone in interviews may be amicable, make no mistake that The Magdalene Sisters is a confrontational work made by an aggressive filmmaker who sincerely believes that the cinema can be an effective forum for political expression.
	www.cinemaspeak.com /Interviews/mullan.html (1128 words)

	Spirituality & Practice: Film Review: The Magdalene Sisters, directed by Peter Mullan
		An estimated 30,000 girls went through this system, sent to Magdalene Asylums for their so-called sexual improprieties — having a child out of wedlock or being a "temptress." These poor souls were forced to work in silence seven days a week in laundries without pay.
		The intent of the sisters was to drive wayward souls to repentance through prayer and hard work.
		The three new arrivals are immediately shamed by Sister Bridget (Geraldine McEwan), the authoritarian head of the laundry.
	www.spiritualityandpractice.com /films/films.php?id=5143 (773 words)

	USATODAY.com - Shocking 'Magdalene Sisters' is praised, condemned (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Magdalene Sisters, Scottish director Peter Mullan's exposé of laundries where about 30,000 "wayward" young Irish women were systematically abused, has won awards, condemnation and even an apology.
		Fathers could condemn their daughters to the laundries as virtual slaves if they flirted, had a baby out of wedlock or were raped.
		Indeed, the only complaint has come from victims who say their treatment by the Magdalene nuns in various countries was worse than depicted.
	www.usatoday.com /life/movies/news/2003-08-04-magdalene-controversy_x.htm (530 words)

	KINNOPIO - The Magdalene Sisters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In the case of The Magdalene Sisters, those unfortunates are young girls who, for a variety of reasons -- everything from being simple-minded and illegitimate to promiscuous or even just pretty and flirtatious -- were locked away in asylums run by the Sisters of the Magdalene Order.
		But, having become institutionalized, as well as suffocated by the hopelessness of her position (an earlier scene examines how girls locked up in the Magdalene asylums were often shunned and forgotten about by their families), she chooses to stay inside rather than escape.
		But even though the three protagonists in The Magdalene Sisters are only inside the asylum for a short time, there would follow 30 years of similar suffering for other girls -- many of whom were heart-wrenchingly never reunited with their families, according to the closing placard.
	home.earthlink.net /~kinnopio/reviews/2003/magdalene.htm (793 words)

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