The Banshees of Inisherin

 

The Banshees of Inisherin 2022

• Director: Martin McDonough
• Seen by this director: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, Seven Psychopaths, In Bruges
• Based on the book: no
• Cast: Colin Farrell, Brendon Gleeson, Kerry Condon, Barry Keoghan
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Colin Farrell – many
• Brendon Gleeson - many
• Kerry Condon – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, This Must Be the Place, The Last Station, Intermission, Ned Kelly, Angela’s Ashes
• Barry Keoghan – Eternals, Chernobyl, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, ‘71
• Why? The cast
• Seen:  8 March 2025   

             Have they been rowing, old friends Pádraic (Farrell) and Colm (Gleeson)? Pádraic doesn’t think so but Colm suddenly refuses to sit with him at the local pub on the tiny island Inisherin off the coast of Ireland. Colm just doesn’t like him anymore. He doesn’t want to waste his life with Pátraic’s dull chat.

            Pátraic lives with his sister Siabhan (Condon) and his little black donkey Jenny. He is very upset by Colm’s rejection.

            It’s the 1920s, the Civil War is going on over on the Irish mainland. The people of Inisherin are isolated, lonely, eccentric, immersed in nonsensical religion and mean-spirited gossip.

            The film is funny, sad, extremely well-acted (of course) and beautiful. Ireland is beautiful.

 5* of 5