Synopsis
Explore the life of Flannery O’Connor whose provocative fiction was unlike anything published before. Featuring never-before-seen archival footage, newly discovered journals, and interviews with Mary Karr, Tommy Lee Jones, Hilton Als, and more.
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Cast
- Mary SteenburgenFlannery O'Connor (voice)
- Richard RodriguezSelf
- Alice WalkerSelf
- Michael FitzgeraldSelf
- Hilton AlsSelf
- Mary GordonSelf
- Tommy Lee JonesSelf
- Mary KarrSelf
- Flannery O'ConnorSelf (archive footage)
- 67
Austin Chronicle
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. - 67
Original-Cin
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. - 50
RogerEbert.com
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. - 30
The New York Times
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.