A trailer has been released for a powerful new Sinead O'Connor documentary which premiered at Sundance Film Festival earlier this year.
Nothing Compares charts the words and actions of the Irish musician between 1987 and 1993 and wil be released in Irish cinemas next month. The flick was directed by Belfast filmmaker Kathryn Ferguson and focuses on Sinead's "phenomenal rise to worldwide fame and examines how she used her voice at the height of her stardom".
""Focusing on O’Connor’s prophetic words and deeds from 1987 to 1993, the film presents an authoritative, richly cinematic portrait of this fearless artist through a contemporary feminist lens," the documentary's official synopsis reads. The film has already scooped several awards including Best Documentary at the Aegean Film Festival, the Audience Award at the Belfast Film Festival and the Best Irish Feature Documentary at the Galway Film Fleadh.
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It has received rave reviews so far, with US film industry publication Deadline describing it as "a full-throated battle reclamation of one of most compelling and prophetic artists of the past few decades". In the trailer for Nothing Compares, we see Sinead arriving on-stage at Madison Square Garden in New York to booing crowds.
This followed her now infamous appearance on Saturday Night Live during which she tore up a photo of Pope John Paul II to protest the Catholic Church's cover-up of child sexual abuse. The trailer shows us archived footage of the star during that time as well as a new interview with her, charting her rise to stardom after releasing Nothing Compares 2 U, her Saturday Night Live appearance and the subsequent fallout.
In a lively ending to the trailer, Sinead says: "They tried to bury me. They didn't realise I was a seed."
Nothing Compares arrives in Irish cinemas on Friday, October 7.
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