Kathryn Ferguson’s documentary zeros in on the momentous first few years of Sinead O’Connor’s music career, when she went from being idolized to being demonized.
Youthful daring fueled that outrage, but its roots were the wounds of a difficult childhood. She was trying to start a conversation about the things she believed unjust, some of them horrors she knew firsthand. But the Irish singer-songwriter’s protests against the Gulf War, racism and the Catholic Church’s abuse of women and children enraged a lot of people, from flag-waving “patriots” to a pissed-off Frank Sinatra and a hate-spewing Camille Paglia.
O’Connor had her baby. And she took her music-biz defiance further, shaving her head and following her own, gender-fluid sartorial preferences — making her compelling and confusing at a time when female performers were expected to conform to a girlie aesthetic. . O’Connor came to be known as fierce, uncompromising and confrontational, but the film reminds us, through some of her early TV appearances, how polite and soft-spoken she was when she wasn’t letting that big voice roar in song.
, evoking a sense of the Ireland of O’Connor’s formative years. Tellingly, that highly regarded film by Peter Lennon, with its critique of a repressive, Church-dominated society, was essentially banned in the country for many years. Beyond the traumas she faced at home, O’Connor spent some time in a residential training center that was connected to one of the infamous Magdalene laundries, where she saw firsthand the way “fallen” women were thrown away.
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