O C Boyle

Many of the reviewers seem to believe that this film is historical and based on fact. It is not! It is based on a short novella, which, although clever and well written, is merely a work of the imagination. The events in the novel did not take place. One has to question why the locking up of the girl is associated with a Magdalen Laundry. Is it because it makes the novella and film more likely to appeal to the secular elite of reviewers who welcome any condemnation of catholic nuns. If so, it has succeeded!

Utter rubbish! Whoever decided to put this on TV should be sacked.

How could anyone with an ounce of sense think that a four hour ceremony could be anything but a marathon of utter tedium? An enormous waste of money and time for the participants and spectators. A complete washout, and I am not referring to the rain! Poor Paris!