Event Opportunity in Leeds: LIFF Spring Weekender: Blue Road - The Edna O’Brien Story
Sat, 22 Mar
|Vue in the Light
WFTV members are invited to attend this special screening of Blue Road - The Edna O’Brien Story as part of Leeds International Film Festival’s Spring Weekender.
Time & Location
22 Mar 2025, 16:00 GMT
Vue in the Light, The Light, Leeds LS1 8TL
About the Event
WFTV members are invited to attend this special screening of Blue Road - The Edna O’Brien Story as part of Leeds International Film Festival’s Spring Weekender.
An intimate, heartfelt and insightful film about the sensational life of Irish author Edna O’Brien who influenced a generation of writers in Ireland and around the world.
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.…