The Banshees of Inisherin, Martin McDonagh’s return to the Venice Film Festival after 2017’s triumphant Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, had its world premiere Monday night, getting the b…
, Deadline’s Todd McCarthy praised the film as “a simple and diabolical tale of a friendship’s end shot through with bristling humor and sudden moments of startling violence,” noting McDonagh’s “long-proven ingenuity at spinning a mere anecdote into a full-bodied work of substance.”, Gleeson commented, “I’m glad to see male friendship as something valuable at the moment when the readjustment of everyone’s relationships with everybody is under reconsideration.
Also on the subject of the film’s interpersonal relationships, Farrell spoke at length about how he believes the movie can act as a counter to today’s world, which he described as the “informational age” that “takes us away from the intimacy that’s required and interests that are needed to exist.” He continued, “When push comes to shove we will always return to good chats. It’s like the people who don’t believe in God until they’ve overdosed on a drug.”
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