There aren’t many movies likeThe Banshees of Inisherin.
Ambiguity is really important."
Luckily, Davis had a lot of time to make sense ofBansheesbefore he shot a single scene.
Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell in ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’.Searchlight Pictures
They also watched several films that felt pertinent particularly American Westerns.
“We watchedThe Searchers, The Assassination of Jesse James, quite a few Westerns.
Let’s have those big wide shots.”
Colin Farrell with Jenny the Donkey in ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’.Photo by Jonathan Hession. Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures
“Inishmore is this slab of rock in the middle of the Atlantic.
When I first arrived and we first scouted, it was drizzly and gray and overcast.
And I thought, Well, how is this gonna work?
But then I spent a lot of time there and fell in love with the place.”
Davis adds, “You realize that actually every day is incredibly beautiful.
It doesn’t matter what the weather is, because you have this vast sky and this huge ocean.
When you are there on this island, the rest of the world ceases to exist.
That’s played out in the film with the Irish Civil War happening on the mainland in the background.
But that is actually what happens internally when you are there.
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