A disturbing movie by Peter Mullan on what happened to the "wayward" women of Ireland. ℘℘℘ Peter Mullan's The Magdalene Sisters opens ironically with a wedding scene. But it is not a happy occasion. Margaret is lured by her cousin Kevin to an upstairs room where he rapes her. Kevin is chastised, but it is Margaret who has "shamed" her family and is carted off the next morning … [Read more...] about The Magdalene Sisters
The Magdalene Sisters
By Patricia Harty, Editor-in-Chief
August / September 2003