Now available via iTunes and other digital venues, John Michael McDonagh’s “Calvary” joins “The Magdalene Sisters” and “Philomena”
as the latest scathing cinematic indictment of the sins of the Catholic
Church in Ireland. (“Calvary” arrives on Blu-ray and DVD Tuesday.)
Of these three films, “The Magdalene Sisters” (2002), from writer-director Peter Mullan, is the most direct, sustained and comprehensive, immersing viewers in a horrific present-tense depiction of physical and emotional abuse of young girls consigned to Magdalene laundries, but also addressing clerical sexual abuse.
http://www.cruxnow.com/life/2014/12/05/scathing-cinematic-indictments-of-the-church-in-ireland/
Of these three films, “The Magdalene Sisters” (2002), from writer-director Peter Mullan, is the most direct, sustained and comprehensive, immersing viewers in a horrific present-tense depiction of physical and emotional abuse of young girls consigned to Magdalene laundries, but also addressing clerical sexual abuse.
http://www.cruxnow.com/life/2014/12/05/scathing-cinematic-indictments-of-the-church-in-ireland/