It had to appear. And it appeared. When there are still several films to see in competition for the Golden Lion, the jury members already have one that satisfies everyone equally. The Banshees of Inisherinby Martin McDonagh, should not be overlooked Julianne Moore and his companions, including our compatriot Mariano Cohn.
Playwright and director, McDonagh (won an Oscar for the screenplay of the Oscar-nominated film 3 ads for a crime) had directed Farrell and Gleeson 14 years ago in Hiding in Bruges (2008), which was a very pleasant surprise. And The Spirits of the Island, as it will be known when it comes out in Argentina, in almost five months, only on February 2, 2023, confirms his talent.
The film has a lot, a lot of humor, a little bit of violence, and it’s about the friendship of two men in a small coastal town in Ireland in 1923.
Or the end of a friendship.
“I just don’t like you anymore,” Colm (Brendan Gleeson) dryly tells Pádraic Súilleabháin (Colin Farrell). I can not stand it. He is tired of the aimless chatter, he is tired of the harmless conversations of his (ex) friend, he is tired of boredom and he wants to leave something for the future: to compose a song on his violin.
Pádraic is one of those who neither conceive nor take no for an answer, and it becomes so heavy that Colm gives him an ultimatum. An ultimatum that will concern more than friendship, the very life of him. If Pádraic bothers him again, his finger will be cut off.
The meeting is in a pub, at 2pm, the normal time for these two men to drink more than a pint of beer. Other equally adorable characters are those who make up the Irish Siobhan (Kerry Condón, Stacy in Better to call Saul), as Pádraic’s sister, and Dominic (Barry Keoghan, Druig in Eternal, Dunkirk), the youngest with the fewest lights in the city.
Do not doubt: here something will take away from you (attention Ricardo Darín; another candidate for the Coppa Volpi as best actor has appeared) and the Oscar nominations will probably rain down on him too.
To film Ireland
The director’s parents, who are from London, were born in Ireland, as were the rest of the main cast. And McDonagh went to shoot there, on the west coast of Ireland, where he used to visit his family as a boy. The island of Inisherin is fictional, it does not exist, but a certain myth that uses the film, with a wandering Death with a woman’s name and a stick with hook instead of a scythe, with the spirits or aching souls of the title, has its roots in Irish stories.
“It was my dream,” the director told the press conference, and from the very beginning he thought about Farrell and Gleeson, with whom he had already worked. Hiding in Bruges. “I can’t imagine letting go of everything he writes because he’s an amazing writer and I’m always deeply moved emotionally and psychologically by the worlds he creates and the characters he draws,” said Farrell of McDonagh.
Farrell was thrilled with the script from the very first reading and making the film was “an emotional experience that touched me very deeply. I am willing to participate in any kind of project with him,” he said.
While Gleeson (Alastor “Evil Eye” Moody in the saga of Harry Potterand this will be tested Joker 2with Joaquin Phoenix) recalled that shooting Hiding in Bruges with Farrell and McDonagh it was “exhilarating both creatively and personally … For me, the value of male friendship runs deep, and it’s important to talk about it at a time when relationships are readjusting.” everyone with everyone “.
Farrell considered it essential that the story took place almost a century ago, “because sharing thoughts and feelings with others, face to face, without devices, is something precious that cannot be supplanted by technology, which today distances us from the intimacy that it takes to live “.
For the actor of Previous sentencehis character “has an innocent humanity” and the film is “a story about the loss of innocence”.
Then 13 minutes of applause in the Great Hall after the screening testifies that people liked the film.
And how.
Paul O. Scholz
Source: Clarin
