Flannery

Name: Flannery
Genre: Biography, Documentary
Released: July 17, 2020
Duration: 97 min
Rating: 50
Cast: Alice McDermott, Brad Gooch, Conan O'Brien, Flannery O'Connor, Hilton Als

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| Release Date (Streaming): July 17, 2020 | Not Rated

Starring: Alice McDermott, Brad Gooch, Conan O'Brien, Flannery O'Connor, Hilton Als, Mary Gordon, Mary Karr, Mary Steenburgen, Michael Fitzgerald, Richard Rodriguez, Tommy Lee Jones

Summary: "Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic..." Flannery O'Connor, 1958. Shy, funny, devout, disabled--words that describe one of the most acclaimed American short story writers of all time. Flannery O'Connor's stories"Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic..." Flannery O'Connor, 1958. Shy, funny, devout, disabled--words that describe one of the most acclaimed American short story writers of all time. Flannery O'Connor's stories about the southern U.S. have inspired writers, artists and musicians for decades with their dark humor and "gothic" sensibilities. "Flannery" tells the life story of a brilliant, young woman who died before she was forty through the eyes of contemporary writers and artists with cartoons, animations, never-before-seen archival footage and great music. Tommy Lee Jones, Alice Walker, Mary Karr, Tobias Wolff, Hilton Als, Alice McDermott, Bill T. Jones, Lucinda Williams--all share their opinions, their art and their music in this feature-length, NEH-funded documentary. How can people go to church AND commit murder, she wonders...?… Expand

Director: Elizabeth Coffman and Mark Bosco

Genre(s): Biography, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 97 min

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Liam Lacey

Aug 27, 2020

The film certainly does not ignore O’Connor’s attitudes and fictional treatment of race. It just doesn’t make it particularly central to her reputation. Read full review

Richard Whittaker

Jul 16, 2020

Bosco and Coffman make a convincing argument that only Mary Flannery O'Connor could become Flannery O'Connor. Some of her works would probably be unpublishable now, but she isn't writing them now. If she'd survived past 39, maybe the next book after The Violent Bear It Away would have been very different. But, they posit, the Flannery O'Connor we have is the Flannery O'Connor we got, and maybe the one we deserved. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Sheila O'Malley

Jul 17, 2020

There's a lot of interesting things here and yet Flannery feels incomplete, and — worse — a little bit scared to go in for a much deeper dive. Read full review

Glenn Kenny

Jul 16, 2020

This biographical documentary of the writer Flannery O’Connor, directed by Mark Bosco and Elizabeth Coffman, is sporadically informative. But it mostly underscores the shortcomings of the varied methods it uses. Read full review

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