Blue Road – The Edna O’Brien Story
Sinéad O'Shea / Ireland & United Kingdom / 2024 / 98 min
The Irish author turned taboos and traditions upside down in the 1960s. In her own words, we get the wild story as told from the inside and with zero filters.
Who wouldn’t want to be friends with Edna O’Brien? Recently rediscovered by avid international readers everywhere, the Irish author was a woman with the courage to write (and do) everything others could only dream of. Her sexually direct debut novel ‘The Country Girls’ in 1960 broke all the taboos of the time in conservative Catholic country, and paved the way for a decade where she was known for throwing the best house parties with the likes of Paul McCartney, Marlon Brando and Judy Garland on the guest list. O’Brien was a social comet and a literary luminary, but that didn’t mean success came easy. Quite the opposite. With O’Brien herself as a dazzling narrator, we get both the personal struggles with the men in her life, as well as a riveting, panoramic life in the middle of the cultural and literary revolution of the 1960s and 70s.