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The Next Picture Show

#351: McDonagh's Discontented Duos Pt. 2 — The Banshees of Inisherin

The Next Picture Show

Filmspotting

Tv & Film, Film History, Film Reviews

4.6858 Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

14 years after Martin McDonagh’s feature film directorial debut IN BRUGES, he has reunited with Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson for THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN, a quieter and arguably much darker film about a different splintered friendship, with similar ideas about morality, mortality, and guilt. We’re joined once again by critic Siddhant Adlakha to talk over some of those ideas as they play out in BANSHEES, how they color where our sympathies lie in the civil war between the film’s protagonists, and how much any of that matters when considering this story as a metaphor. Then we bring IN BRUGES into the discussion to consider how both films tap into McDonagh’s particular cinematic and comedic rhythms, use their female characters as a corrective to impulsive and irrational male behavior, and conclude with a choose-your-ending ambiguity. And in Your Next Picture Show, we talk over a different pairing we considered for this week and our reactions to the film that inspired it: WEIRD: THE AL YANKOVIC STORY Please share your comments, thoughts, and questions about IN BRUGES, BANSHEES OF INISHERIN, or anything else in the world of film, by sending an email to comments@nextpictureshow.net, leaving a short voicemail at 773-234-9730, or commenting on our Patreon (patreon.com/NextPictureShow), where you can also find bonus episodes and more.  Outro music: “Jenny Was a Friend of Mine” by The Killers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Sitting quietly once you've made the house all shiny.

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Down time can be just fine playing bangers from the 90s.

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Tea break.

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Lunch break.

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Maybe listen to the outbreak.

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0:15.0

It's enjoying lasagna time, chilling with a book time,

0:18.0

or time to visit your nan time go on, play some other time

0:22.6

put your phone down

0:23.8

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0:47.4

It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.

0:51.1

Do you believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?

0:57.9

We may be true with the past, but the past is not through with us.

1:05.5

Welcome back to the next picture show, a movie the week podcast devoted to a classic film

1:09.7

in the way it shaped our thoughts on a recent release. I'm Tasha Robinson, here again with Genevieve Koski. And Scott Tobias.

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