A good movie

Even though Peter Mullan was finally getting noticed following his stellar performance in 'My Name Is Joe’, I always thought the guy was and still is seriously underrated. In fact ,he has actually also directed a few movies but even though his directing debut ‘Orphans’ was decent, it was barely noticed when it was released. Eventually, his directing follow-up would get much more attention and would even win the prestigious Golden Lion at the Venice Film festival. Basically, it was a solid but also really gloomy and heartbreaking drama. I mean, while watching this, you can’t help thinking that it must be way over-the-top and it is difficult to believe that those institutions existed in Ireland up to the mid-60’s. The worst is that an actual former Magdalene inmate reported that the reality of these Asylums was actually even much worse than depicted in the film. So, it was a heavy tale, that’s for sure, but, to be honest, I thought that the whole structure was fairly traditional and predictable preventing this movie from becoming really amazing. To conclude, even though I don’t think it was really a masterpiece, it was still a really solid historical drama and it is definitely worth a look.