Tragedie Sinéad O'Connor Nothing Compares

Nothing Compares: sturdy film about the tumultuous start to the career of tormented Irish singer Sinéad O'Connor. With Nothing Compares 2 U, she didn't just bring herself to tears.

Sinead O'Connor ripping Pope picture - Fight the real enemy The moment when singer Sinéad O'Connor, a degenerate product of deeply Catholic Ireland, tears up a photo of the pope in front of the millions of the American television show Saturday Night Live. He is said to have been involved in covering up sexual abuse within the Irish Church.

As an unruly teenager from a broken family who, according to her own words, had suffered from a mother's powder, O'Connor had been housed with the nuns. They had tried hard to discipline her. In vain. On her own terms — pregnant and with millimetered hair, for example — the singer became world famous in the late eighties. And then, triggered by the sexism she was confronted with almost continuously and the public rejection after the incident with the pope's photo, her past started to come to an end.

Sinead O'Connor: 'I Love About My Mother That She's Dead' In an emotional interview, singer Sinead O'Connor talks about her ambivalent relationship with her mother, who she claims abused her as a child.

Director Kathryn Ferguson saves Sinéad O'Connor's psychological decline for the very last part of her portrait, paying particular attention to the personal and social context of O'Connor's crises, not their undoubtedly painful details. “They broke my heart and tried to kill me, but I didn't die,” says the protagonist herself about the (misogynous) hatred that was poured out over her as a young female artist for years. “They tried to bury me but had no idea I was a seed.’