The Banshees Of Inisherin

Thought it was OK but not great. Premise seemed a bit silly to me but maybe the intricacies were lost on me.

What kind of an accent were they going for? Do people say "aye" outside of the north?

It looked great, it was nice to see that period of ireland recreated well.

Interesting to read the comments here after seeing it last week myself.

The comments are reflective of the fact that some people go to the cinema to be entertained with a neat resolved conclusion, and other people who see cinema as art. That's not intended to come across as po-faced, but that is how it is generally.

I thought this film was fantastic on lots of levels. The themes; friendship, isolation, island life, snobbery, war, the humanity/inhumanity of man, animals, and then the cinematography and the acting were superb. A great work of art should move you in some way, be that a piece of music, a painting, a film, etc. This made me think a lot about those themes I mentioned above.

It was set in Ireland but could apply to any rural situation in any country of the world.

I saw a trailer for this and it looked awful with those silly accents that sounded like the Field. Won't be wasting my time watching this.

Well, for the last couple of weeks I've been wondering whether tayto lover would go to see it, or would he just judge the whole film from the trailer. Glad he let us know as it's important to get some reviews based off the trailer alone.

I felt the same...was on the edge of being a great great film but fell short. I thought the humour detracted from the film's momentum, and some of the jokes were quite cheap. Jon Kenny didn't need to be in it at all - just a bit of patter with Pat Shortt really, and it's a flaw of many Irish films to try and find a role for one or two too many well-known Irish actors.

Likewise, I didn't realy see the point of the old woman (I forget her name) acting as a portent of doom or whatever...her appearances seemed fairly contrived and didn't really add anthing to the narrative.

In general I thought the acting excellent. I felt that Kerry Condon was superb, was disappointed her relationship with her brother wasn't explored more, or the impact of her leaving. Unlike some on here, I didn't think Farrell was all that good, until his character finally developed a bit of drive and purpose, then he was fine. Before that, he didn't play the aimless character all that well I thought.

I found the old woman to be key to the whole thing and I took out of it that she was the Banshee and death.

She certainly added a lot to the narrative.

Saw this last night and found it very disappointing .

Take a bit of Synge, a bit of Beckett, a bit of Father Ted, a bit of Tarantino, humour with all the sophistication of Beavis and Butthead, an utterly feeble and contrived plot and characters you'd be flattering to call one dimensional, throw them together with some lush landscape shots, a bit of austere classical music during the "profound" bits, tone that like every McDonagh film lurches wildly from serious to farce, and a nice blend of paddywhackery mixed in with mystical Ireland and you get this mess.

Reminds me of the worst of McDonagh's theatre, like A Skull in Connemara. Two boring fellas arguing over nothing with absolutely nothing at stake, horribly stagey dialogue and utterly juvenile humour.

In Bruges and 3 Billboards were both better, and that's not saying much.

Finally someone who agrees with me! I also saw A Skull in Connemara and thought the same, very similar.

I’ve talked about this with approx 10 ppl who’ve seen it

8 thought it was rubbish

1 said meh

1 liked it - sorry now but he is known as the village idiot of the group

make of that what you will

There's the nub of it I suspect.