CinéCCI
Blue Road - The Edna O'Brien Story
- Tuesday 3 February
- 7.30pm
- €11,90 (Reduced fee for seniors, job-seekers and students)/ UGC, CinéPass and CIP cards accepted - Reservation recommended
- Les 3 Luxembourg, 67 rue Monsieur le Prince, Paris 6
In Irish with French subtitles, 98 mins
Edna O’Brien scandalized the Emerald Isle with her literary debut, The Country Girls (1960), the first of a sexually-frank trilogy of novels. Although the books were banned in Ireland, O’Brien became an international literary sensation with more than twenty books to her name, as well as publications in the New Yorker and screenplays for British and US cinema. Living in London, the author’s marriage and acrimonious divorce from Ernest Gebler, star-studded parties and numerous love affairs further added to her fame and notoriety.
This documentary portrait, completed shortly before her death in 2024, features extracts from O’Brien’s journals, read with verve by Jessie Buckley. It includes contributions from Gabriel Byrne, Anne Enright and other luminaries, and a remarkable final interview with Edna O’Brien, as she reflects with dignity and candour on her extraordinary life.
This screening is presented in association with the Irish Film Institute’s IFI International Programme supported by Culture Ireland.
