Julia Hamilton finds this film set in 1960s Ireland baffling and dissatisfying.
Reconciliation is a tough gig, is the message of The Miracle Club (directed by Thaddeus O’Sullivan), set in 1960s Ireland, dramatising the hard road to reconciliation that four Irish working-class women from the same village embark on during a pil- grimage by bus to Lourdes. A heavy-hitting cast, including Maggie Smith and Kathy Bates, do their best to keep the narrative in the placid realm of the feel-good but the tragedy at the very centre of the story continually destabilises the comedy, revealing the identity crisis at the heart of the film.
