In Martin McDonagh’s latest film, “The Banshees of Inisherin,” Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson play a pair of friends on a tiny island off the coast of Ireland. It’s 1923, and they can hear artillery fire as the Irish Civil War rages on the mainland. But for them, there is only the steady rhythm of caring for animals, idle chit-chat, Mass on Sunday, and drinks at the pub.
Then, everything changes. Or, rather, one thing changes, and that changes everything. Quiet, contemplative Colm (Gleeson) tells simple, talkative Pádraic (Farrell), without warning, that he doesn’t want to be friends anymore. The
