BLUE ROAD: THE EDNA O'BRIEN STORY
One of Ireland’s most important novelists and a woman of fierce intelligence and bravery is celebrated in Sinéad O’Shea’s thoroughly enjoyable documentary. Edna O’Brien passed away in 2024, but this film provides a final testimony from her, aged 93, as she reflects upon her extraordinary life for filmmaker Sinéad O’Shea’s camera. Granting the director access to her personal journals — read aloud in the film by the Oscar-nominated Irish actress Jessie Buckley — and with additional perspectives offered from Gabriel Byrne, Walter Mosley and an array of renowned writers, Edna does not shy from any subject. In 1960, a young Irish woman named Edna O’Brien wrote a sexually frank debut novel, The Country Girls. She became a literary sensation, writing for The New Yorker, delivering provocative interviews, and authoring screenplays. Her success enraged her writer husband, Ernest Gébler, and made her a pariah in her native Ireland, where her books were banned and burned. She would make her home in London, where she conducted numerous love affairs, hosted star-studded parties, and made and lost a fortune... Blue Road is as candid, dark, and enchanting as O’Brien’s wonderful novels.DocumentaryPT1H40M12A2025-04-25Edna O'Brien
Jessie Buckley
Gabriel Byrne
Sinéad O'Shea
BLUE ROAD: THE EDNA O'BRIEN STORY"BLUE ROAD: THE EDNA O'BRIEN STORY"Showtimes
April 25, 5:40 pm
April 26, 6:30 pm
April 27, 5:40 pm
April 29, 1:00 pm
April 30, 3:40 pm
May 1, 3:10 pm
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