It is perhaps the best of ten Oscar nominees handed out this year. It has it all: comedy, drama, depth, humor, and amazing performances from the entire cast. the spirits of the islandwith Colin Farrell and Brendan GleesonIt must not be missed.
Martin McDonagh (3 ads for a crime) reunited Farrell and Gleeson, stars of Hiding in Bruges (2008), which was a wonder about two hit men left behind in that city.
The film has plenty of humor, some violence, and is about the friendship of two men in a sleepy little town off the coast of mainland Ireland in 1923 as the Civil War is raging, but it’s a far cry from action. .
But one day, one afternoon, something terrible happens.
“I just don’t like you anymore,” Colm (Gleeson) tells Pádraic Súilleabháin (Farrell) dryly. I can not stand it. He is tired of having aimless chatter, he is tired of the harmless conversations of his (ex) friend, he is tired of boredom and wants to leave something for the future: compose a song with his violin, The Banshees of Inisherinwhich gives the film its title had 9 Oscar nominationsincluding film, director, original screenplay and four of its performers.
Pádraic is one of those who does not conceive or accept No for an answer and, annoying as it may be, Colm issues him an ultimatum. An ultimatum that will affect his life more than friendship. If Pádraic bothers him again, he will cut his finger for every attempt at conversation.
The meeting is in a pub, at 2 in the afternoon -normal time for these two men to drink more than a pint of beer-. Other characters equally adorable and for which their interpreters also aspire to separate statuettes from the Hollywood Academy for the best supporting performance are those that make up Kerry Condon (Stacy Better call Saul) as Siobhan, Pádraic’s maiden sister, and Dominic (Barry Keoghan, Druig in Eternals, Dunkirk), the young man with less lights than the city and the son who mistreats and is unknown if anything else the obnoxious police officer of the island (Gary Lydon).
Though branded as a Village Idiot, it is Dominic who best defines the situation and Colm’s decision, when he tells Pádraic about his (ex) friend “How old is he? 12?” Pádraic is a milkman who lives in a modest country house, with his cows and his donkey, and doesn’t understand what’s going on. A marriage can end in divorce, but his years of friendship with Colm can end ?
Wit, speed and humour
Martin McDonagh is not only a great dialogue writer and screenwriter. His scripts have story-building ingenuity, speed, lucidity and a lot of surprise in the responses one character gives to another, and he handles the humor like few others.
the spirits of the islandwhich is already on Star+, is a very dark comedy, with something macabre, in which it examines male pride.
And if there is laughter because it is comedy, there are also other types of grimaces. Winces of Pain
But what McDonagh does is examine what happens when someone isolates themselves from all communication. Misunderstandings, and assumptions can lead to confusion and heartache.
Inisherin Island is fictional, it doesn’t exist, but a certain myth that the film uses, with a death wandering around with a woman’s name and a staff with a hook instead of a scythe, with spirits or souls . of the title, has its roots in Irish tales. It’s a multilayered film, like all good films.
“The Spirits of the Island”
Comedy drama. Ireland/UK/USA, 2022. Original title: “The Banshees of Inisherin”. 114′, SAM 13 R. From: Martin McDonagh. With: Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Kerry Condon, Barry Keoghan. Available in: Star+.
Source: Clarin
