Academy Award winner Martin McDonagh is back, this time with a self-described “break-up story” about two friends whose abrupt parting of ways spurs unforeseen consequences.
Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson reunite with each other and McDonagh for the upcoming film, having previously worked together on the director’s well-loved 2008 crime comedy “In Bruges.” Earlier this year, McDonagh told Vanity Fair he hoped “The Banshees of Inisherin” would entertain the cult fans of “In Bruges” in similar ways, but that it “could be a little more, at least at the outset, odder or weirder — and definitely something different.”
“The Banshees of Inisherin” is set and was shot in McDonagh’s native Ireland Against the backdrop of the Irish Civil War in 1923, Farrell plays Pádraic, a contented man whose chipper attitude is often accompanied by an adorable miniature donkey named Jenny. Opposite him is Gleeson as the curmudgeonly Colms, who inexplicably turns...
Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson reunite with each other and McDonagh for the upcoming film, having previously worked together on the director’s well-loved 2008 crime comedy “In Bruges.” Earlier this year, McDonagh told Vanity Fair he hoped “The Banshees of Inisherin” would entertain the cult fans of “In Bruges” in similar ways, but that it “could be a little more, at least at the outset, odder or weirder — and definitely something different.”
“The Banshees of Inisherin” is set and was shot in McDonagh’s native Ireland Against the backdrop of the Irish Civil War in 1923, Farrell plays Pádraic, a contented man whose chipper attitude is often accompanied by an adorable miniature donkey named Jenny. Opposite him is Gleeson as the curmudgeonly Colms, who inexplicably turns...
- 8/4/2022
- by Alison Foreman
- Indiewire
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