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Philomena
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Genre | Drama, Comedy |
Format | Multiple Formats, Color, Widescreen, NTSC |
Contributor | Stephen Frears, Judi Dench, Steve Coogan |
Language | English |
Runtime | 1 hour and 38 minutes |
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Product Description
When she fell pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee (Judi Dench) was sent to the convent to be looked after as a fallen woman. She cared for her baby for three years until the Church took him from her and sold him, like countless others, to America for adoption. Coerced into signing a document promising never to attempt to see her child again, she nonetheless spent the next fifty years secretly searching for him, unaware that he was searching for her from across the Atlantic.
Product details
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
- Product Dimensions : 0.6 x 5.4 x 7.5 inches; 2.4 ounces
- Item model number : 92798
- Director : Stephen Frears
- Media Format : Multiple Formats, Color, Widescreen, NTSC
- Run time : 1 hour and 38 minutes
- Release date : April 15, 2014
- Actors : Judi Dench, Steve Coogan
- Subtitles: : English, Spanish
- Studio : Lionsgate
- ASIN : B00GSBMNOQ
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #19,360 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #2,234 in Comedy (Movies & TV)
- #3,075 in Drama DVDs
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Philomena(Judi Dench) is the name of the English woman who was grown in a convent by nuns.
When she was 16, she got pregnant and the nuns treated her as a sinner, took away her child, sold him to America.
After 50 years, she is desperate to find her adopted son and her daugher meets this journalist (Steve Googan) who usually writes other matters rather than human stories but finally decides to help her finding her son/ write a story about what happened back then.
There are severel or many of the same or similar stories already made from Europe but none of them touched me this deep.
Only Stephen Frears –FLORENCE Foster JENKINS, THE QUEEN, MRS HENDERSON PRESENT- can be possible made this emotionally so touching drama.
Also Judi Dench once and for all deserves an Oscar winner for sure.
She was not flamboyant or cried or shout or anything but she was so very herself all into the character. I was even wanted to see this movie a little more even during the credit is rolling. I wanted to see more of her life! Philomena’s life!
All of the Stephen Frears’ movies are so delicate and instant classic that you should just have to buy them and collect them.
Steve Googan doesn’t believe in god that much. He thinks that they are in some way fraud. When he hears about what happened to Judi Dench, he was so angry and that anger helped her all the way. I felt his justice.
When they finally have researched and even meets the lover of the son, they found out that after the son- he was gay and got AIDS- got AIDS, he visited the convent to trace his mother, they all lied by saying she abandoned him and never wanted to meet him.
He was even buried in the yard at the convent.
They thought that she was a sinner and deserved not to even meet the son even after 50 years apart.
May I ask what kind of a sin that she’ve made?
Had sex with a boy whom he loved at an early age? Is that it?
Is is so against god that she has to let go of him abroad not even knowing that the nuns are selling the baby to America?
Not even be able to meet him after he was succeeded –He became a team for the President Regan as a politician– and came back to meet her but they lied that she didn’t wanted to see him ever?
Sometimes if the movie is so real, the charactors are so great, as an audience, I become so angry as well at the fact.
But how she reacted was, I was wrong.
I am happy to know that I finally had a chance to retrace him.
Don’t blame the nuns. They did nothing wrong.
I was wrong.
But for Steve Googan as a man, he couldn’t help becoming so angry.
The very old nun still think that she is a sinner and what she did was all right.
After everything have been passed, they finally wrote this into a book.
It was all revealed into this book.
As I said, there are a lot of similar movies dealing with this matter but this movie stands alone so vivid because of the director Stephen Frears.
He knows how to cook two actors so well.
Judi Dench constantly talks about what she thinks, at the beginning it was kind of tiresome but as time goes by we begin to fall in love with that.
Steve Googan, a kind understanding man, a man with responsibility, brave and righteous man.
This movie deserves more attention.
Where to buy :dvd is 7.00$ , bluray is 8.59$ , Korea dvd is 20$
ART: 96/100
STORY 97/100
BOXOFFICE/FUN 95/100
MUSIC 96/100
ACTING 97/100
DIRECTING 97/100
SEXUALITY na/100
ACTION na/100
BLOOD/GORE na/100
CINEMATOGRAPHY 97/100
This PG-13, pleasantly scripted dramedy was co-written by Jeff Coke (Lots of TV) and Mr. Coogan himself, based on the book "The Lost Child of Philomena Lee" by Martin Sixsmith. You will see no sweaty bodies (except when Philomena gives birth), hear no gunshots, and see no vehicular mayhem. What a relief!
We have:
* Judi Dench ("Skyfall") is Philomena Lee. Many decades ago, as a pregnant teenager abolished to a convent, she was forced to give up her out-of-wedlock boy as penance. She has searched for him for a long, long time. This woman is not worldly, but she IS wise...
* Steve Coogan ("What Maisie Knew") is Martin Sixsmith, a jaded journalist who suffers from a mild case of depression; he did after all, just lose his job. When he is first approached about this story, his reaction is strictly negative. "Human Interest Stories" are NOT his cup of tea! This may be the first time I've found this actor appealing.
* Anna Maxwell Martin ("North and South") is Jane, Philomena's daughter who is convinced her mother deserves to know what happened to her little boy after he was taken from her. Jane is the one who approaches the journalist...
The facts, as they are uncovered, are NOT kind to the Catholic Church, nor to the people who administer the penances for their parishioners. In recent years, much has been disclosed about the treatment of young girls and orphans in Ireland, courtesy of the Church, so there is no big surprise here. This simply puts a face on one of its victims.
The home movies that appear throughout seem so authentic, it's hard to know if they are real or not. I can't find anything that tells me, so I think this is simply an extremely sophisticated blend of fact and fiction. Kudos to the artists who put this together! You may be sure I will pre-order my DVD from Amazon.
This is an excellent but very disturbing story. I don't own many movies but after seeing this on a free movie channel preview I had to have both the movie & the book. The movie takes a bit of poetic license from the book but not enough to be a problem. It gives a very good portrayal of what happened & went on in those Magdalene Laundries in Ireland, which were just horrible & somehow stayed in operation until 1996. There aren't enough negative words to describe the awful things that were done & said to those poor girls & their children, Every time I learn of something like that I am so thankful that our founding forefathers had the insight & foresight to put laws into place that a religion would NEVER become the law in this country. The movie is mostly about what happened to Philomena there & her search for the son who was taken from her. The book is a whole lot more about him as a young man, which you want to know about after seeing the movie. There are complaints that the book is a lot of fiction. It is written more like a novel with dialog the author couldn't possible have known about but I think the gist of it is probably true. He had to have been conflicted about being adopted, esp since he was told his mother gave him away because she didn't want him, & because he was gay in a very anti-gay society. This story has profoundly impacted me & I can't quit thinking about it.
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Le jour des 50 ans de son fils (en 2002) Philomena en parle pour la première fois à sa fille qu'elle a eu plus tard. A la suite de cela elle part avec le journaliste Martin Sixsmith à la recherche de son fils qu'elle n'a jamais revu.
Cette histoire dramatique ne tombe jamais ni dans la facilité ni dans le pathos. Elle est superbement écrite, palpitante, constamment surprenante, alternant émotion et humour. La mise en scène de Stephen Frears est modeste, simple et élégante.
Les deux principaux comédiens sont exceptionnels. Judi DENCH est absolument parfaite rendant crédible une révolte intérieure mélangeant à la fois insouciance et force de caractère. Quant à Steve COOGAN, lequel a également produit et coécrit le scénario du film, il est époustouflant en journaliste tout à la fois dépressif et révolté. Tout comme son personnage je n'aurais pas accordé mon pardon à la religieuse responsable de l'omerta qui a entouré la disparition de l'enfant et qui vieille et aigrie campe toujours sur des positions révoltantes alors que Philomena lui pardonne. Je crois que je l'aurais plutôt étranglée.
Ce film basé sur des faits réels comme nous le rappelle le bonus où l'on peut assister à l'interview de la vraie Philomena et de sa fille, laquelle ne pardonne pas à l'Eglise irlandaise et aux religieuses tout le mal qu'ils ont fait à sa mère et à toutes celles qui se trouvaient dans son cas (à ce propos je ne peux que conseiller de voir le film The Magdelene Sisters).
Un pur chef d'œuvre à ne manquer sous aucun prétexte.