Blue Road - The Edna O’Brien Story

An intimate, heartfelt and insightful film about the sensational life of the groundbreaking and widely influential Irish author Edna O’Brien.

In 1960, a young Irish woman named Edna O’Brien wrote a sexually frank debut novel, The Country Girls. She became a literary sensation, and her success enraged her writer husband 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. In July 2024, O’Brien passed away and this film provides a final testimony from her, aged 93, as she reflects upon her extraordinary life for filmmaker and journalist Sinéad O’Shea. Extracts from her candid diaries are read by Oscar-nominated actress Jessie Buckley, with many additional contributions including from actor Gabriel Byrne, novelist Walter Mosley, and her sons.

“It’s executed in the same spirit of openness and friendship that O’Brien brought to her own headlong passions and you get the feeling that, yes, she’d think it got her right.” - Fionnuala Halligan, Screen International

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