Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson reunite for Martin McDonagh’s tense, heartbreaking ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’—and V.F. has an exclusive look behind the scenes.
his biggest cinematic success to date, he had a specific idea for where he should go next: “I wanted to tell a breakup story,” he tellsin his first interview about the new movie. “This is about things getting inexorably worse from a simple, sad starting point.”
The film is still singularly McDonagh: teetering between comedy and tragedy, propelled by wildly colorful dialogue, and underscored by a subtly escalating tension that reveals itself in sudden outbursts.also represents a kind of homecoming for its writer-director, both literally and figuratively: It’s the first feature McDonagh has shot and set in his native Ireland, and it’s an intimate character study that recalls the early-career plays with which he made his artistic mark.
There’s a personal element to all of it. McDonagh filmed on the islands of Inishmore and Achill, off of Ireland’s west coast, which is near where his parents live in Galway. He’d also visited many of these stunning locations as a child. The mythical quality of the fictional Inisherin, as McDonagh realizes it, is suffused with memory and history. “[Inishmore] has been featured in Irish literature for the last 150 years.
Then there’s the matter of the broader Irish conflict, proceeding at a steady clip as the curious impasse between Pádraic and Colm intensifies. McDonagh was attracted to the war, thematically, because of its unique contours: “The Irish Civil War was between two sides who, a year before, were on the same side and fighting the British and the British Empire,” he says. “The tragedy of that war was that everyone was close friends—and then they were killing each other.
“The pendulum swings wide with Brendan,” says Colin Farrell, “from the tenderness that he’s capable of to the godlike wrath that he can exude if needs be. He’s always digging, always asking the big questions.” Farrell and Gleeson previously starred together in McDonagh’s 2008 debut feature,which has found a cult fandom in the years since, with particular love toward the two actors’ absurdist odd-couple pairing.
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