The Banshees of Inisherin
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The screenplay of the latest macabre and haunting comedy from the writer of In Bruges and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.
Winner: Best Screenplay, BAFTAs 2023
Winner: Best Screenplay, Golden Globe Awards 2023.
Winner: Best Screenplay, Venice Film Festival 2022.
What is he, twelve? Why doesn’t he want to be friends with you no more?
1923. As shots ring out from the warring mainland, on the island of Inisherin it’s the rift between old drinking pals Pádraic and Colm that leads both men to ever more alarming action.
‘Simply perfect . . . a bleakly funny yet often unutterably poignant drama that consistently recalls the best of Beckett. . . . It is proper art.’ The Times
‘Quietly magnificent.’ Variety
About the Author:
Martin McDonagh’s first play, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, was nominated for six Tony awards, of which it won four, and the Laurence Olivier Award. In 2003, his play The Pillowman had its world premiere at the National Theatre, London, and received the 2004 Olivier Award. In 2006, Martin McDonagh won an Oscar for his short film Six Shooter. In Bruges won a BAFTA for Best Original…
Press Reviews:
Simply perfect . . . a bleakly funny yet often unutterably poignant drama that consistently recalls the best of Beckett. . . . It is proper art.
- The Times
Slippery, complex . . . murkily magnificent . . . shoulder-shudderingly funny.
- Daily Telegraph
The ornately verbal, gruffly poetic and violently hilarious vernacular of McDonagh's best writing . . . [This] quietly magnificent film is mythic in its rage and resonance . . . caustically, hauntingly and sometimes raucously sad.
- Variety
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