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In 1969, a visiting geologist from Newfoundland arouses scandal in a small Irish village when he romances a local girl who’s destined for the convent.
Love & Savagery
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Téléfilm Canada Park Ex Pictures Movie Central Morag Loves Company Subotica Entertainment Irish Film Industry Cogeco Program Development Fund Newfoundland and Labrador Film Development The Movie Network Corus Entertainment Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland Mongrel Media
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Canada
06 Aug 2009
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"because poetry has a texture, you know? and life has a texture, and poetry has a spiritual and a physical landscape, and rocks have texture too, obviously, and rocks have an amazing history, a story to tell, a sensuality." (as someone who's also into rocks and likes [more like studies] poetry... i get it).
phew... i'm religious as well and even i am afraid of religious people.
if you hate gloomy weather or if you're not fond of white religious fanatics, then save yourself the trouble. it had its moments, but i'm not ranking it higher 'cause more than once it felt overstretched— i mean, at times it felt like it was all so over, but then it was all…
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An absorbing love story that's more realistic than it is melodramatic.
It's a sensitive and forbidden romance in every sense that does without the usual go-to formulas we are used to seeing. A story ultimately about a woman's choice as she finds herself at a junction of paths between the pureness of her dreams to devout herself to the convent and the man, who is just passing through, captures her interests.
Cathleen is a woman of virginal and naive upbringing, who also has a very strong-minded sense of rebelliousness to her. Michael is an adventurer and a geologist. He's a man beyond the small town she lives in who represents everything she vows not to be a part of, and…