Synopsis
An old woman has been locked in an Irish asylum so long that no one recalls why. The Secret Scripture (2017) is Jim Sheridan's drama you can watch online on iFILM.
Rosanne McNulty was once the most striking young woman in her town. Now she's Vanessa Redgrave; her younger self is Rooney Mara, living through 1930s rural Ireland, a war for independence, and a love the church and her neighbors will ruin her over. When psychiatrist Dr. Grene (Eric Bana) arrives to shut the failing hospital down, he uncovers the diary she kept for decades — and begins unpicking how she landed here for half a century.
Sheridan, the director of My Left Foot, adapts Sebastian Barry's novel into a slow-burning period piece about a woman punished for loving the wrong man the wrong way. Two actresses share a single role like facing mirrors, and a late reveal rewrites everything you assumed about her. One for viewers who like their Irish sagas patient and built around a buried secret. Stream The Secret Scripture (2017) online on iFILM.
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