Film No. 95 (2017) December 10th. 3.40 PM LUNA Paradiso, Northbridge
"Do you not understand the power you have over men". (Rose is lectured by her aunt as courters fight and fall to gain her favour).
The Secret Scripture will have a following due to its lavish production and outstanding big name cast but I for one walked away disappointed by the saccharine script on offer. Jim Sheridan (My Left Foot) seems to have traded his earthy narrative footprint for a big budget matinee story; the story of Rose (Mara and Vanessa Redgrave) and the mystery behind her incarceration in a Northern Ireland asylum. You guessed it, we begin with an elderly Rose who clunkily tells her story; meet young Rose (Mara) as an attractive, but fractured girl living in a Northern Irish village. It's lavish, it's predictable and could make you cry in the end. The discerning film goer, looking to be challenged, will be disappointed. 6GUMS.
It wasn't in Northern Ireland, you dolt. The story was set mostly in the Irish Republic. Did you actually watch the movie or just write a bunch of BS to pretend you had watched it?
ReplyDeleteI agree with “Unknown” all these years later. I loved the film and had NO problems following all the time jumps and so on. I had tears at the end and Wish Chris Greenward had been open to the love and magi’s.
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