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The Banshees Of Inisherin - Martin McDonagh

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Martin McDonagh's next movie will be The Banshees Of Inisheer. He's teaming up with Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson again. Inisheer is a real island off the west coast of Ireland (the shipwreck in the Father Ted opening credits is there).

 

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The film is set on a remote Irish isle, and they will play two lifelong friends who find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship with alarming consequences for both of them.

 

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I know it’s not thought of highly but I even loved Seven Psychopaths in spite of its glaring issues, so chalk me up as excited for this. 
 

Brendan Gleason and Colin Farrell play a couple of feckin eejits living on a remote island off the west coast of Ireland. I know it’s not Father Ted : The Movie but wouldn’t you like to see Gleason and Farrell take on the roles of Ted and Douglas?

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On 08/08/2022 at 08:57, jonamok said:

Film looks great. But I’m generally not a fan of Barry Keoghan’s work (though I have yet to see Sacred Deer).

 

I really don't like him on screen. But to me that's kind of his whole thing - he has a professionally unlikeable face. I expect he's a perfectly nice lad. 

 

Anyway this is out tomorrow and I'm really looking forward to it. I've seen a couple of different trailers in front of other recent films and it just looks like it'll be right up my street.

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I saw this at lunchtime and thought it was great.

 

Beautifully shot, great performances and a really funny script.

 

Can’t really compare to In Bruges except to say that McDonagh should  not wait 14 years to direct Gleason and Farrell.

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I saw it this evening. Really good. More contemplative than I anticipated. With the central themes of division, heedlessness and dissatisfaction, it felt very much like a story of the times. People wanting different things from each other, and none of them being wrong, and that spilling over into the violence. 
 

I loved the visual metaphor of the donkey and the sheepdog. Each satisfied in their own way of life, and needing company, but both very different to each other. 
 

It was really funny when it needed to be. And the cinematography was outstanding. Yea, really good. 

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Writer/director Martin McDonagh was on Kermode and Mayo this week. 

 

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Simon Mayo: It is a brilliant film and it is fantastically funny, and yet when I left the screening and walked to work, I had a profound sense of melancholy. 

 

Martin McDonagh: Good... I think?

 

SM: That's what I was thinking. You'll be pleased with that. It really kind of hung very heavily on me. 

 

MM: Yeah, yeah, good. It's interesting because there's always a lot of laughs during the watching of it, but I have, like, asked in Q&As what the feeling at the end of it was. I was hoping that there'd be hope, but it seems like melancholy and sadness is the thing that you are left with. Which is interesting to me. I did want it to be a sad film, and to be, you know, a truthful depiction of a horrible, sad breakup - with gags! - but as a filmmaker it's always interesting to see exactly what an audience is coming away with, and it does seem to be that, and I think that's great. 

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(Emphasis mine.)

 

Really interesting to me that he thought the ending was one of hope. I really don't want to spoil the film because everyone should watch it, but I certainly didn't come away feeling any sense of hopefulness for the future. I'm very much looking forward to seeing it again with that in mind.

 

 

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I watched it this evening. I thought it was absolutely terrific. Funny, and dark and mythical and tragic.

 

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There a strong element of the characters being manipulated by dark forces out of their own control. Brendan Gleeson's character gets compared to a child in response to his threat of self harm, but the point is he must perform this kind of "rite" in response to his promise. it's as if on the island words and threats and promises have taken on a kind of mythical power that has to be satisfied, and this means blood is going to continue to be shed in the name of those things sworn.

 

I liked how it was juxtaposed against the backdrop of the Irish Civil war that looms large over the Island at points: a civil war that was fought by two sides with slightly different needs, who had previously been fighting on the same side together against the British Empire for their freedom, and now suddenly at odds with each other.

 

Absolutely riveting.

 

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1 hour ago, Benny said:

I watched it this evening. I thought it was absolutely terrific. Funny, and dark and mythical and tragic.

 

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There a strong element of the characters being manipulated by dark forces out of their own control. Brendan Gleeson's character gets compared to a child in response to his threat of self harm, but the point is he must perform this kind of "rite" in response to his promise. it's as if on the island words and threats and promises have taken on a kind of mythical power that has to be satisfied, and this means blood is going to continue to be shed in the name of those things sworn.

 

I liked how it was juxtaposed against the backdrop of the Irish Civil war that looms large over the Island at points: a civil war that was fought by two sides with slightly different needs, who had previously been fighting on the same side together against the British Empire for their freedom, and now suddenly at odds with each other.

 

Absolutely riveting.

 

No it was just being men being fecking silly and childish. 

 

You know the reason why the world is fucked and all that. Just my take anyway. 

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