'The Banshees of Inisherin' reunites the 'In Bruges' team for a tragicomedy about the end of a bromance and the beginning of a war — and to say that Colin Farrell deserves the Oscar for this is putting it mildly. Our Movie of the Week review:
Both a comedy and a tragedy — one that substitutes Irish wit and irony for the Greeks’ gods and monsters —somehow feels ancient; it takes place in 1923, not coincidentally when Ireland was embroiled in its own Civil War, yet you’d swear that it was adapted from a fable scribbled centuries ago.
But if you’re familiar with McDonagh’s early theater work, you’ll recognize the real roots of this mournful, magnificent addition to his tales of talkative men and violence.
What everyone in this quaint, gossipy village does comprehend, however, is rage, and pain, and loneliness, and that’s the currencytrades in. McDonagh doesn’t make either of these men saints or sinners — one just wants to create something beautiful and lasting in the world, the other is simply content to be kind to all while he’s here, even if it’s impermanent. Both of them are flawed, and once an ultimatum is issued, both of them are fucked.
McDonagh also wants to give his actors a hell of a showcase, too, and it’s the two stars butting brows at the center ofthat make this a masterpiece of men behaving very feckin’ badly. We don’t want to ignore the great work that Keoghan or Condon are doing on the periphery, or the exquisite cinematography by Ben Davis, or Carter Burwell’s ability to channel both regional folk music and a universal sense of grief in his score.
There’s such an incredible give and take between these two, and while we’ve been taking Gleeson’s off-kilter charisma for granted since 1998’sthe performance that leaves scars is Farrell’s.
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