The Banshees Of Inisherin

Another recommendation today. Go and see The Banshees Of Inisherin at a cinema near you. If you possibly can.

Martin McDonagh is the brilliant director and writer of this undoubtedly sad, heart breaking, and occasionally horrific film. But also one that is laugh out loud hilarious, tenderly compassionate and so very perceptive. Starring those superb actors Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, who are brilliantly matched all the way by the rest of the cast.

The film covers life, death and everything in between in a tale of friendship gone wrong, that is also, and even more so, about our own relationship to mortality, suffering and the meaning of life.

I’m a lover of happy endings…give me some hope please…and though this certainly isn’t THAT kind of film, it still has some gently uplifting moments. And it certainly isn’t just battering the poor, helpless, cinema going soul with gratuitous darkness, in the manner of a particular kind of film that I find repulsive.

Instead, the whole experience, and it is an experience, holds the viewer very close, and breaths out a very simple message in the midst of tragic comedy.

One life. Don’t fritter it away.