The Banshees of Inisherin

Searchlight Pictures and Film4 present, in Association with TSG Entertainment, a Blueprint Pictures production, The Banshees of Inisherin, a Martin McDonagh ...

Set on an island off the west coast of Ireland, THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN follows two lifelong friends, Padraic (Colin Farrell) and Colm (Brendan Gleeson), who find themselves at an impasse when Colm abruptly decides to end their friendship. With the support of his sister Siobhan (Kerry Condon), who along with the local policeman’s son Dominic (Barry Keoghan) has her own qualms within the small island community, a confused and devastated Padraic attempts to reignite their relationship. Searchlight Pictures and Film4 present, in Association with TSG Entertainment, a Blueprint Pictures production, The Banshees of Inisherin, a Martin McDonagh film.

Martin McDonagh's The Banshees of Inisherin, another of the director's black comedies, is to premiere at the 79th Venice Film Festival in early September.

All the films listed above will compete for The Golden Lion, Venice’s top prize. Guadagino, director of Call Me by your Name, has spoken of “a very romantic story, about the impossibility of love and yet, the need for it. Element Pictures, producers of Oscar-winning pictures such as Room and The Favourite, earned great critical success with Joanna Hogg’s The Favourite Part 2. Vanessa Kirby, who took best actress at Venice for Pieces of a Woman, co-stars alongside Hopkins and Laura Dern. Noah Baumbach, director of Marriage Story and Frances Ha, casts Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig and André Benjamin in an adaptation of Don DeLillo’s seminal 1985 novel White Noise. Driver plays a lecturer in Hitler Studies whose life is upended by an “airborne toxic event”. Alejandro González Iñárritu, twice winner of the Academy Award for best director, returns to his native Mexico with Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths, a drama concerning a journalist going through personal traumas. The Venice Film Festival, which was founded in 1932, has in recent times acted as launching pad for many of the most high-profile films of the incoming awards season, but this year’s bounty is close to unprecedented.

New Banshees of Inisherin images feature its star-studded cast including Colin Farrell and Barry Keoghan, and highlight Ireland's amazing scenery.

Appearing as two drinking buddies sitting on a stone partition by the jaw dropping cliffs, Farrell and Keoghan’s characters share a bottle of booze. The confusion and desperation portrayed by the actor while his character stares through his ex-friend’s window, searching for answers, is apparent and stinging. Sadly for one of the two parties involved, Farrell’s Pádraic, the feeling is not mutual.

Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson star in Oscar winner Martin McDonagh's "The Banshees of Inisherin," out October 21.

“The tragedy of that war was that everyone was close friends — and then they were killing each other.” Barry Keoghan and Kerry Condon also star in the first feature written and directed by Oscar winner McDonagh set in his native Ireland. “ The Banshees of Inisherin” premieres October 21 from Searchlight. “This is about things getting inexorably worse from a simple, sad starting point,” McDonagh said.