Completed - ENGLISH - Drama - 108 minutes
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.
Year of production : 2016 Director(s) : Jim SHERIDAN Writer(s) : Johnny FERGUSON Cast : Rooney MARA, Vanessa REDGRAVE, Eric BANA, Theo JAMES, Jack REYNOR Producer(s) : Noel PEARSON
Roseanne McNulty (Vanessa Redgrave/Rooney Mara), a once vibrant and lively beauty in her youth, has spent the majority of her adult life confined to a mental hospital in rural Ireland. She has been institutionalized for so long, no one seems to remember why she was hospitalized in the first place.When a new chief psychiatrist, Dr. Greene (Eric Bana), arrives, he takes a keen interest in Roseanne. He finds a hidden memoir, written over the course of decades by Roseanne, which unravels the mystery of her incarceration, as well as telling the tale of her passionate, yet tortured, life.
Country(ies) : IRELAND
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