"I don't like you anymore, that's all," Colm (played by Brendan Gleeson) says to his old friend Pádraic (played by Colin Farrell), in a serene, irrevocable tone.
In the film
The Banshees of Inisherin
, in theaters since Wednesday, December 28, 2022, director Martin McDonagh recounts the end of a friendship between two men, whose complicity made it possible to escape boredom on isolated lands in Ireland.
Colm is determined to distance himself from Pádraic.
Opposite, he is met with disbelief, anger and sadness.
The filmmaker sheds light here on a theme that is little discussed, that of friendly separation.
A disunity that can be as painful - if not more - than a breakup.
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And for good reason.
“Friendship is of a psychic intimacy at least as deep as love”, underlines the psychotherapist Sarah Serievic (1).
And maybe even more, for that matter.
Aren't there things we entrust to a friend and not necessarily to our romantic partner?
Friendship…
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