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The Irish writer-director Martin McDonagh has earned an adoring audience for his ability to find grace amid the grotesque. With films like “In Bruges” and “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” he’s been rapturously received for his auteurist signatures, which include extravagant profanity, wickedly caustic humor, and a penchant for putting his characters into alternately amusing […]
“How’s the despair?” The question is repeated through The Banshees of Inisherin, Martin McDonagh’s existential howl of a comedy that brings to mind everyone from Samuel Beckett to Abbott and Costello, sometimes within the same scene. Set on a green, craggy island off the coast of Ireland in 1923, this is an uncanny, indefinable film about the seismic repercussions of a friendship rupture. Its intimacy is quietly startling. The despair, it turns out, is quite wonderful.