This Christine Malloy / Joe Lawlor film is the latest of their incisive and sensitive features I've had the privilege to watch.
With outstanding performances from Aidan Gillan (Gerry Devine), Zoe Tay (Kim Devine), Michael Thomas (Lester), Claire Keelan (Kathleen Devine), Michael Walsh (the late and floating John Devine) and newcomers Molly Rose Lawlor (Sarah Devine) and Ashleigh Judith White (Isadora Devine); this film about sexual exploitation and systemic child abuse shows not only the nobility of the human spirit underlying the intractible consequences both biological and emotional of the innocent lives rent assunder; but also the ripples in the lake of human suffering stretch far back into Eire and England.
Quiter and more insidious than the open secret that was the Magdelene Laundries and the Industrial Schools of rural Ireland; this film explores and explains the social problems that ordinary people will take generations to begin to face, let alone resolve.
Another new chapter in the textbook of human suffering. Our thanks to Christine Malloy and Joe Lawlor for spelling it out so unmistakably in words and pictures.
With outstanding performances from Aidan Gillan (Gerry Devine), Zoe Tay (Kim Devine), Michael Thomas (Lester), Claire Keelan (Kathleen Devine), Michael Walsh (the late and floating John Devine) and newcomers Molly Rose Lawlor (Sarah Devine) and Ashleigh Judith White (Isadora Devine); this film about sexual exploitation and systemic child abuse shows not only the nobility of the human spirit underlying the intractible consequences both biological and emotional of the innocent lives rent assunder; but also the ripples in the lake of human suffering stretch far back into Eire and England.
Quiter and more insidious than the open secret that was the Magdelene Laundries and the Industrial Schools of rural Ireland; this film explores and explains the social problems that ordinary people will take generations to begin to face, let alone resolve.
Another new chapter in the textbook of human suffering. Our thanks to Christine Malloy and Joe Lawlor for spelling it out so unmistakably in words and pictures.