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Flannery is a superb documentary on the formative experiences of O'Connor's life. This is a top notch production that goes well beyond photos, letter readings, and quotes from O'Connor's fiction, to paint a portrait of O'Connor as a real human being, not just a southern writer, or a Catholic, or a sufferer of Lupus.

Flannery contains a lot of material I haven't seen such as photos not available to the general public and the family's home movies, but the highlights of the film are the interviews with people closest to O'Connor including her friends Sally Fitzgerald, Erik Langkjaer, and William Sessions; cousins Frances and Louise Florencourt; and her publisher Robert Giroux.

The documentary builds a picture of young O'Connor--unconventional, creative, and deeply religious, with definite plans to support her writing with work as a cartoonist--then reveals the converging events that deflected her career directly into writing fiction. Along the way we get a glimpse Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor Paperback - GAGE