Padraic and Colm are lifelong friends. Since time immemorial, they meet every day in the pub and spend the afternoon between pints of beer. But one morning, Colm (Brendan Gleeson) refuses to accompany Padraic (Colin Farrell) to the pub. He has decided to end their long and great friendship. He doesn't explain. He acknowledges that his former friend has not offended or annoyed him and, upon Padraic's insistence, he confesses that he simply finds him boring.
Martín McDonagh presented yesterday in the official section of the Mostra The Banshees of Inisherin, a very black comedy set on a small Irish island off the coast of Galway in 1923. Ireland is immersed in a civil war, but the inhabitants of the island It matters little, they live quietly and isolated dedicated to the care of their animals. Until the conflict breaks out between the old friends that leads to terrible events.
The Banshees of Inisherin , McDonagh's first work since the celebrated Three Billboards Outside (2017), drinks from The Quiet Man (John Ford, 1952), but goes much further, because it is full of tasty dialogue loaded with black humor that do not leave the viewer or the main actor indifferent: “McDonagh is an extraordinary writer. I am deeply emotionally and psychologically moved by the worlds he creates and the characters he designs”, Farrell said yesterday as he passed through the Venice Film Festival.
