The Banshees of Inisherin [DVD]

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Just as Sheila Flitton’s crone-like neighbour Mrs McCormick comes increasingly to resemble Bengt Ekerot’s embodiment of Death in Bergman’s The Seventh Seal, so McDonagh’s acerbic dialogue circles the subject of impending obliteration in tragicomic fashion. Depressed by a sense of time slipping away, and determined to do something creative with whatever years he has left, Colm has decided to cut Pádraic out of his life, ridding himself of the “aimless chatting” of “a limited man”. But just as war can turn boys into monsters, so this conflict with Colm will eat away at Pádraic’s innate good nature (he was always thought of as “one of life’s good guys”), turning hurt to anger, generosity to meanness, love to vengeance. In this moment, Siobhán becomes the voice of reason, echoing the spectators' thoughts, steadily getting just as vexed at Pádraic (Colin Farrell) and Colm’s (Brendan Gleeson) mindless rowing. The record is spinning at 33 1/3 RPM, instead of 78 RPM, which was the ONLY speed used to play records in the early 1920's.

The Banshees Of Inisherin: a Rare Slow-burn Story - MovieWeb The Banshees Of Inisherin: a Rare Slow-burn Story - MovieWeb

Set on a remote island off the west coast of Ireland, The Banshees of Inisherin follows lifelong friends Padraic (Colin Farrell) and Colm (Brendan Gleeson), who find themselves at an impasse when Colm unexpectedly puts an end to their friendship. Instruktøren bag "In Bruges" (der også bragte Farrell og Gleeson sammen) og "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri" har begået endnu en fast sammentømret lille film om skæbner i et isoleret miljø - temaet er ens for de tre film. I kept waiting for the payoff during the movie that simply never came, making me wonder what I just watched.As my title states, the actors could not be faulted in any way, as I found them to be superb, having me hooked with their interactions. There are moments of kindness we see in Colm when he helps out Pádraic as he’s being bullied by the local police, Peadar (Gary Lydon), who can be seen as a stand-in for the British empire.

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Nothing but more bleakness and grudges and loneliness and spite and the slow passing of time until death,” and Mrs. There are plenty of quotable, laugh-out-loud moments in The Banshees of Inisherin (the title has a funereal musical twist) that meld odd-couple comedy with toxic bromantic satire.

Pádraic asks his smarter sister Siobhán (Kerry Condon), with whom he shares the home from which she constantly has to eject his beloved donkey (“animals are for outside!