Blue Road – Edna O’Brien Story 4PM & Girl with Green Eyes 8PM

Blue road:Edna O Brien Story  4PM

Director: Sinéad O’Shea

Featuring : Jessie Buckley, Declan Conlon, Gabriel Byrne

FILM INFO:

98 minutes, Ireland, 2024, 12A

Short synopsis 

Filmmaker Sinéad O’Shea (Pray for our Sinners) brings us author, playwright and socialite Edna O’Brien, as she reflects upon her life and career with astounding candidacy. Defying Ireland’s patriarchal, religious constraints with her sexually frank 1960 debut novel, The Country Girls, she became a literary sensation. Vilified in Ireland and escaping an abusive husband, O’Brien was empowered and prolific, controversial and sexually open, a taboo-breaking powerhouse who made a fortune and lost one.

Completed shortly before her death last year, Blue Road features extracts from O’Brien’s journals (read by Jessie Buckley); contributions from, among others, Gabriel Byrne and Anne Enright; and a remarkable final interview with Edna, aged 93, as she reflects with dignity and candour on her extraordinary life.

Festivals:

Cork International Film Festival 2024

Toronto International Film Festival 2024

Awards

Winner – Best New Irish Feature, Cork International Film Festival 2024

Girl with Green Eyes 8i.n.

91 minutes,  Éire, 1964 , not rated

In 1960s Dublin a young girl becomes involved with an older man, a much-travelled and still-married landowner.

A poignant adaptation of Edna O’Brien’s novel, starring Rita Tushingham and Peter Finch, exploring themes of innocence and societal expectations.

Ticket for one screening €12 /  €10 concession

Ticket for both screenings  €20 / 15 concession

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