Amazon Prime VideoThe 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.
The Secret Scripture is a highly streamlined adaptation of Sebastian Barry's 2008 Man Booker finalist.On film, the humour is lost in the scramble to do justice to the convolutions of the plot and Grene is forced to work fast. The hospital…
The Secret Scripture. An elderly Irish woman looks back on her troubled youth in this spectacularly awful melodrama. Film. Monday 15 May 2017.But when she met airman Michael (Jack Reynor), Roseanne sparked a scandal that ultimately…
The Secret Scripture review – a mawkish slog. This article is more than 9 years old. Vanessa Redgrave is brilliant as a woman instutionalised for infanticide, but otherwise Jim Sheridan’s tearjerker is a merely an endurance test.Watch a…
