Word: mullan
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...Adolf the aspiring painter) plumbed the cinema's inexhaustible fascination with Mr. Bad. And when you can't blame one person, blame the culture. Among the festival's most praised films were two parables of hypocrisy set in the 1950s and '60s: Todd Haynes' Far from Heaven and Peter Mullan's The Magdalene Sisters. Far from Heaven is inspired by those glossy '50s romances produced by Ross Hunter and directed by Douglas Sirk. Haynes takes the alcoholic husband from Written on the Wind, the race mixing of Imitation of Life and the matron-in-love-with-her-gardener plot...
...idea for his latest film, The Magdalene Sisters, from a documentary he happened upon while channel surfing. If ever creative inspiration isn't so close at hand, writer-director Peter Mullan can look to his own bleak Glaswegian upbringing. The visuals would certainly be striking. Mullan's family led an outwardly prosperous life in a large pillared house that his mother instructed him and his seven siblings to tell people was owned, not rented. The lie fostered an illusion of affluence, but behind the façade, says Mullan, "we didn't even have any furniture. We were dirt poor...