Those who have not lived through “interesting times” wouldn’t know why it is supposed to be a curse, according to an old English saying, often wrongly attributed to the Chinese. But Colm is deadly serious and makes a solemn promise, or threat: every time Pádraic talks to him, he will cut off one of his own fiddle-playing fingers.

The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) - Release info - IMDb The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) - Release info - IMDb

From acclaimed filmmaker Martin McDonagh ( Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) comes a unique film starring Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson.On the other hand, streaks of cruelty in Pádraic turn his closest ally in this conflict—which has even the local priest taking sides— Dominic (Barry Keoghan) against Pádraic and possibly towards his doom. Although Pádraic (Farrell) and Colm (Gleeson) have been lifelong friends, they find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship, bringing alarming consequences for both of them.

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The recent pandemic-prompted lockdowns highlighted how isolation breeds haunting loneliness instead of acting as the perfect ground for individualistic originality to thrive as capitalism promises. If you have ever gone through a breakup with a friend you thought was more like family, you will feel the discomfort even more sharply. Nothing but more bleakness and grudges and loneliness and spite and the slow passing of time until death,” and Mrs.Set on a remote island off the west coast of Ireland, THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN follows lifelong friends Pádraic and Colm, who find themselves at an impasse when Colm unexpectedly puts an end to their friendship. The film made its World Premiere in September to critical acclaim at the Venice Film Festival, where it won the Best Screenplay Award for McDonagh and the Volpi Cup for Best Actor for Farrell. Wasn't it so much easier when we was all on the same side, and it was just the English we was killin'?

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Set on a fictional Irish isle around the time the Irish Civil War was coming to an end in 1923, at first glance, Inisherin seems idyllic in its seclusion. In one way, the growing animosity between Colm and Pádraic directly mirrors the Irish Civil War, where it can be argued that Pádraic represents the Free State forces and the self-sabotaging Colm is akin to the IRA.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”. scoffs Dominic (Barry Keoghan), a local lad who harbours hopeless dreams of escaping his daddy (a brutish policeman whose hobbies are drinking and masturbation) and taking up with the bookish Siobhán.