People tend to forget that writer-director Martin McDonagh is first and foremost a celebrated playwright, and not an awards baiter. That’s just the way we like him.
The Oscar-winning writer and director hasn’t released a film since “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”. Five years later, he’s back with a smaller-scaled film in the same vein as “In Bruges.”
McDonagh returns to his dark comedy roots with ‘Banshees.’ The film reunites McDonagh with his ‘Bruges’ stars Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson. The duo play friends who live on a remote Irish isle and whose relationship is turned upside down after one of them abruptly ends the friendship, which results in “alarming circumstances for both.”
The film will have its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, but here comes a trailer ahead of its inevitable fall fest run. Written and directed by McDonagh, it will be released in theaters on October 21st.