The Banshees of Inisherin

by Martin McDonagh

Overview

Nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Original Screenplay and Best Picture

Winner: Best Screenplay, BAFTAs 2023
Winner: Best Screenplay, Golden Globe Awards 2023
Winner: Best Screenplay, Venice Film Festival 2022

What is he, twelve? Why doesn't he want to be friends with you no more? 1923. As shots ring out from the warring mainland, on the island of Inisherin it's the rift between old drinking pals Pádraic and Colm that leads both men to ever more alarming action.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780571381708
Publisher:	Faber and Faber
Publication date:	04/11/2023
Pages:	112
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.60(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Martin McDonagh's first play, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, was nominated for six Tony awards, of which it won four, and the Laurence Olivier Award. In 2003, his play The Pillowman had its world premiere at the National Theatre, London, and received the 2004 Olivier Award. In Bruges won a BAFTA for Best Original Screenplay. His recent works include Seven Psychopaths, Hangmen, A Very Very Very Dark Matter, and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.

Editorial Reviews

"Simply perfect . . . a bleakly funny yet often unutterably poignant drama that consistently recalls the best of Beckett. . . . It is proper art. " ― The Times

"Slippery, complex . . . murkily magnificent . . . shoulder-shudderingly funny." ― Daily Telegraph

"The ornately verbal, gruffly poetic and violently hilarious vernacular of McDonagh's best writing . . . [This] quietly magnificent film is mythic in its rage and resonance . . . caustically, hauntingly and sometimes raucously sad." ― Variety

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