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Featured on 60 Minutes: Red Sea Crisis/Fake Electors/Finding Cillian Murphy (2024)
Scenario
In 1985, devoted Father Bill Furlong discovers disturbing secrets kept by the local monastery and discovers shocking truths of his own.. Cillian Murphy is a fan of the film’s original novel writer, Claire Keegan. He remembers reading her the novel “Foster”; on a train and had to pull his hoodie over his face because he was crying..
But we (the audience) can see it’s there
I could watch Murphy stare at a wall watching paint dry for 2 hours and I’d still buy a ticket. Here, as Bill Furlong, he conveys a sadness that is rarely seen or understood by those close to him. I won’t go into the story that much.
Honestly, there aren’t many out there
But that doesn’t mean it’s a bad movie. It just means it’s a simple story. But one that is very well written, beautifully shot (The whole time, I thought I was in Ireland in the eighties) and incredibly well acted.
Sometimes, they were also physically abused and mistreated
The Magdelene laundries were a real thing until 1996, when the last one closed. Unmarried, pregnant teenage girls were sent to convents to give birth and lose their child through forced adoption. All the while, they were abused as cheap labor by the nuns who ran the laundries.
Eileen Walsh, who plays Mrs
He left an imprint on the soul of the country. Furlong, also starred in Sister Magdalene, a film from 2003. Coincidence or not: I suggest you check it out because it’s a perfect bookend to this gem of a film.