Bad direction

The dialogues are good and the story is very interesting.
And hats off for portraying the gay (ex)partner of the lost son as a normal man, in stead of a stereotype.
But apart from that this movie was not directed properly.
The way the characters talk and express their feelings appear odd and unreal.
Such a pity, because this story could have been filmed so much more compelling and moving.
And I strongly dislike the misplaced moralism at the end in the Abbey, when the old mother says to the
journalist that he should not hate or be angry at the nuns, but just forgive.
While the mother would have been angry in her fourties too, should she have known the truth about what they did to her son.