fourteen years later In BruggeBrendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell are finally reuniting with filmmaker Martin McDonagh (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) for The Banshees of Inisherinpresented Monday in official competition.
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The incomprehensible end of a friendship
The Banshees of Inisherin
These reunions are quite satisfying. Using his talent as a dialogist, favoring a type of humor as singular as it is effective, McDonagh explores a rarely exploited theme: the end of a friendship. On a small island off the west coast of Ireland, where, in the 1920s, barely a handful of inhabitants lived and where the sense of community was very important, Colm (Brendan Gleeson) announced without warning to Pádraic (Colin Farrell), whom he has known forever, that their friendship no longer exists. Total incomprehension of the latter, especially since no unfortunate incident occurred, no hurtful words were spoken either. This film is funny, touching and original. Now let’s hope that a subtitled version will be offered to the Quebec public when the film is released here in October…
The many facets of grief
love-life
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Scene from love-lifeby Koji Fukada
Recognized for having won the Un certain regard prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2016 (thanks to Harmonium), Kôji Fukada is releasing a drama this year titled love-life, in the running for the Golden Lion in Venice. In fact, the Japanese filmmaker does not offer so much a family chronicle, but more a portrait of two individuals having to live with mourning. And who do it in completely different ways. After a tragic accident in the tiny apartment she shares with her parents, Taeko (Fumino Kimura) sees the father of her child reappear in her life, missing since birth, several years ago. Of Korean origin, penniless, and able to communicate only by sign language, the latter sees his former wife investing in him as she had never done before. The approach is very classic and the level of the overall game is sometimes uneven, but love-life nevertheless reserves some beautiful moments.