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Oct 1, 2013 · A British journalist’s novelistic biography about an unwed Irish mother and the son she was forced to give up for adoption. In the sexually repressive Ireland of the 1950s, single motherhood was a mark of shame not only for girls and women, but also for their families. So when 18-year-old Philomena Lee became pregnant in late 1952, her father ...
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Dec 2, 2013 · The facts in the book are likely more carefully researched, and therefore more reliable, than those influenced by the artist license of the scriptwriters. (Steve Coogan, who plays Martin Sixsmith in the cinema version, penned the screenplay with the help of Jeff Pope.)
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Oct 24, 2015 · It received a rating of 92% based on reviews from 170 critics on Rotten Tomatoes, while at Metacritic it received a score of 76 based on 41 reviews, indicating near”universal acclaim.” Stephen Holden of the New York Times described the film as “so quietly moving that it feels lit from within.”
Mar 1, 2014 · Martin Sixsmith’s The Lost Child of Philomena Lee, on which the movie is based, is a human interest story about an endearing old lady, but it was also an important journalistic exposé about the treatment of “fallen” women working in the Magdalene Laundries.
Philomena proves to be a deeply serious film when it comes to its treatment of Martin's attachment to anger and his refusal to give in to the healing medicine of forgiveness. Here is a man who feels he has been unjustly fired from a job he deserved and did very well.
Dec 20, 2013 · One film critic for The New York Post accused the film of being an attack on the Catholic Church, a charge Philomena Lee, now 80 and living in London, has vigorously disputed. The liberties the...
Nov 22, 2013 · Philomena indulges in some unseemly language as it ponders (and not always astutely) the heavy subjects of classism, prejudice against homosexuality and the abuse of young women by religious authority figures. It simultaneously plumbs the depths of forgiveness and the ability of sincere faith to stand up to cruelty and whittle away at the ...
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