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<blockquote data-quote="Angela Channing" data-source="post: 348589" data-attributes="member: 33">I&#039;ve taken a break from watching Christmas films at home and ventured out to watch...The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)<img src="https://i.ido.bi/assets/ent-review/2022/11/banshees-scaled.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 344px" />The premise of this film is simple: the break down of the friendship of two long time friends, Padriac (Colin Farrell) and Colm (Brendan Gleeson). Out of the blue, and for no apparent, reason Colm decides he doesn&#039;t want to be friends with Padriac any more and much of the film in finding out why. Colm becomes more and more intrenched in his rejection of his former friend and Padriac becomes more determined to fix things. On reflection, I&#039;m wondering whether the friendship was an allegory for the Irish Civil War but maybe I&#039;m reading too much into it. The film is very Irish. I grew up in a neighbourhood where there were a lot of Irish people and so many things, like the way the people expressed themselves, their attitudes and their sense of humour, reminded me of some of the people from my childhood. Although the film is more of a drama than a comedy, it is really funny in places. The performances are first rate and the way it showcases the beauty of parts of the Irish landscape is impressive. Overall, I really liked this film and I can see it doing really well when it comes to awards season.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Angela Channing, post: 348589, member: 33"] I've taken a break from watching Christmas films at home and ventured out to watch... [B]The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)[/B] [IMG width="344px"]https://i.ido.bi/assets/ent-review/2022/11/banshees-scaled.jpg[/IMG] The premise of this film is simple: the break down of the friendship of two long time friends, Padriac (Colin Farrell) and Colm (Brendan Gleeson). Out of the blue, and for no apparent, reason Colm decides he doesn't want to be friends with Padriac any more and much of the film in finding out why. Colm becomes more and more intrenched in his rejection of his former friend and Padriac becomes more determined to fix things. On reflection, I'm wondering whether the friendship was an allegory for the Irish Civil War but maybe I'm reading too much into it. The film is very Irish. I grew up in a neighbourhood where there were a lot of Irish people and so many things, like the way the people expressed themselves, their attitudes and their sense of humour, reminded me of some of the people from my childhood. Although the film is more of a drama than a comedy, it is really funny in places. The performances are first rate and the way it showcases the beauty of parts of the Irish landscape is impressive. Overall, I really liked this film and I can see it doing really well when it comes to awards season. [/QUOTE]

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