Love is not a sin.
The hidden memoir of an elderly woman confined to a mental hospital reveals the history of her passionate yet tortured life, and of the religious and political upheavals in Ireland during the 1920s and 30s.
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Grave, earnest, prestige and contemplative.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Renoon TMDB · Feb 20188/10
**The never-ending struggle for women in the male dominated world!** This is a surprise film. Almost my favourite. Because I don't know when the last time I wetted my eyes. I'm not ashamed to say that I love sentimental films. This was not like a thorough tearjerker, but it gets there at some point. It was like I have been waiting for such film a very long time, so that I ended up liking it more than I was anticipating. An Irish-English language film with a wonderful cast. Because of those actors I have watched it, despite it was not promoted big like the Hollywood films. It's not in the mainstream films list. That's why not many people do not know about this film. Rooney Mara's one of the best performances. The remaining cast too had big roles, but was not powerful as hers. Films has genres, books has genres, but not all of those works converted to each other form works out. This is such a rare genre where both formats triumphs. Watching this film is almost as experience of reading the book. You know those literatures explaining the events, character deeply, emotionally, that's quite matching in this film with beautiful locations and nice background score. The suspense kept me exp
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Cast
- Rooney MaraYoung Roseanne McNulty
- Theo JamesFather Gaunt
- Vanessa RedgraveOld Roseanne McNulty
- Eric BanaDr. William Grene
- Jack ReynorMichael Eneas
- Aidan TurnerJack McNulty
- Susan LynchNurse
- Tom Vaughan-LawlorMcCabe
- Charlie KellyBeau
- Nika McGuiganChrissie
Crew
- Jim SheridanDirector
- Johnny FergusonScreenplay
- Jim SheridanWriter
- Sebastian BarryNovel
- Mikhail KrichmanDirector of Photography
- Brian ByrneOriginal Music Composer
- Dermot DiskinEditor
- Jim SheridanProducer
- Noel PearsonProducer
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