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Oscar 2023: The spirits of the island is the best of the candidates

2023-02-02T10:30:23.369Z


Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson are two friends who drift apart at the request of one of them in this wonder from the director of 'Hidden in Bruges'.


It is, perhaps, the best of the ten Oscar candidates this year.

It has it all: comedy, drama, depth, humor, and tremendous performances from the entire cast.

The Island Spirits

, with

Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson

, is not to be missed.

Martin McDonagh (

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) reunited Farrell and Gleeson, protagonists of

In Bruges

(2008), which was a marvel about two hitmen abandoned in that city.

The film has lots and lots of humor, some violence, and is about the friendship of two men in a sleepy little town off the coast of mainland Ireland in 1923, when the Civil War rages on, but it's a faraway action.

I don't bank you anymore.

Colm (Brendan Gleeson) opens up to his younger friend, Pádraic (Colin Farrell).

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But one day, one afternoon, something terrible happens.

"I just don't like you anymore," Colm (Gleeson) says dryly to Pádraic Súilleabháin (Farrell).

Can not stand it.

He's tired of having aimless chats, he's fed up with his (former) friend's innocuous conversations, he's tired of boredom and he wants to save something for the future: compose a song with his violin,

The Banshees of Inisherin

, which gives the title to the film that

has 9 Oscar nominations

, including film, director, original screenplay and four of its interpreters.

Gleeson and Farrell are friends in real life.

Both aspire to the Oscar, one as a supporting actor and the other as a leading role.

Pádraic is one of those who does not conceive or accept No for an answer and, as annoying as he gets, Colm issues him an ultimatum.

An ultimatum that will affect more than friendship, his own life.

If Pádraic bothers him again, he will cut off a finger for each attempt at conversation.

The meeting is in a pub, at 2 in the afternoon -normal time for these two men to drink more than a pint of beer-.

Other equally lovable characters and for which their interpreters also aspire to separate statuettes from the Hollywood Academy for Best Supporting Performance are those made up of Kerry Condon (Stacy in

Better Call Saul

) as Siobhan, Pádraic's single sister, and Dominic ( Barry Keoghan, Druig in

Eternals

,

Dunkirk

), the town's least enlightened young man and son who is mistreated and who knows if something else by the obnoxious island police officer (Gary Lydon).

Why don't you come to the pub?

A friendship that is broken unexpectedly.

Although branded as the village idiot, it is Dominic who best defines the situation and Colm's decision, when he tells Pádraic regarding his (former) friend “How old is he?

12?”

Pádraic is a milkman who lives in a modest country house, with his cows and his donkey, and who does not understand what is happening.

A marriage can end in divorce, but can his years-long friendship with Colm end?

Wit, speed and humor

Martin McDonagh is not only a great dialogue writer and screenwriter.

His scripts have ingenuity in the construction of stories, speed, lucidity and a load of surprise in the responses that one character gives to another, and he handles humor like few others.

The film, which had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, is a black comedy, with a touch of the macabre.

The spirits of the island

is a very black comedy, with something macabre, in which it examines masculine pride.

And if because it is comedy there is laughter, there are also other types of grimaces.

Winces of pain

But what McDonagh does is examine what happens when someone shuts themselves off from all kinds of communication.

Misunderstandings, assumptions, and can lead to confusion and anguish.

Kerry Condon as Pádraic's sister Siobhan and Dominic (Barry Keoghan), both also Oscar nominees.

The island of Inisherin is fictional, it does not exist, but a certain myth that the film uses, with a Death wandering around with the name of a woman and a stick with a hook instead of a scythe, with the spirits or souls in pain of the title, has its roots in Irish tales.

It's a multi-layered film, as all good movies do.

"The Spirits of the Island"

Very good

Dramatic comedy.

Ireland/UK/USA, 2022. 114', SAM 13 R.

From:

Martin McDonagh.

With:

Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Kerry Condon, Barry Keoghan.

Cinemas:

Cinépolis Recoleta and Houssay, Hoyts Abasto, Cinemark Caballito, Showcase Belgrano.

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