Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story
We were delighted to previously screen this film but we have no current plans to screen it again. If you'd like to watch it in the cinema, consider a private hire to watch it with friends. That does rely on the film being available for private purchase.
Film details
| Film Title | Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story |
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| Genre | |
| Length | 100mins |
| Year | 2025 |
| Country | Ireland, United Kingdom |
| Director | Sinéad O'Shea |
| Actors | Edna O'Brien, Jessie Buckley, Gabriel Byrne, Andrew O'Hagan, Anne Enright, Walter Mosley |
| Language | English |
| AKA | Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story |
| Showings |
Emerging from rural Ireland, Edna O’Brien broke multiple taboos with her sexually provocative literature and equally adventurous love life. Here, she opens up about her past with additional perspectives offered by Gabriel Byrne, Walter Mosely, and others.
O’Shea’s moving, polemical work is full of bold aesthetic choices that portray a lucid, passionate woman in her final days, ruefully reflecting via a procession of low, whispery and faltering breaths.
★★★★
The film speaks to Walter Mosley, Anne Enright and Andrew O’Hagan who talk insightfully about her work, and perhaps most touchingly of all with her sons Carlo and Sasha Gébler. It’s a thoroughly enjoyable and engaging study.
★★★★
