“The Spirits of Inniserin”: 4.5 stars for the highly anticipated Martin McDonough film

On a remote Irish island, two best friends find themselves in trouble when one suddenly decides to end their friendship and the other tries to rebuild their relationship, refusing to take no for an answer.

Beckett’s specter of the absurd hovers above his apocalyptic and exhilarating meditation Martin McDonough About a friendship that is suddenly and comically split in two and becomes a vendetta…a vengeful distortion. On the fictional island of Inniserin, off the Irish coast, a hundred years ago, Colm decided without warning to “break up,” as we used to say as children, with his best friend Patrick.

Though they had always known each other, talked and enjoyed the few ways one could breathe in a limited activity and a small demographic community of shepherds, farmers, and petty merchants, their daily meeting at two o’clock in the afternoon for just ale, the local tavern suddenly ceased to apply. .

A story of stubborn and wounded people caught between philosophies and selfishness, determined to pull the rope to the limit – the two, vividly contrasted, dance uniquely.

Reason: Colm felt Patrick was a complete bore. And at the time he left, though the years did not take him, he wanted to devote himself to his popular compositions and to walk alone, without distraction, in the company of his faithful dog, gazing upon the wonderful view from his little house, lost in thoughts, and, as all knew, his depression.

The problem: the talkative Patrick doesn’t understand or accept it. He thinks he’s a good guy, kind to herd man and animal, and loving to his roommate, his sister, because the two of them were orphans, and certainly more interestingly, as it turns out, all the townspeople think of him.

Since Patrick does not pronounce the words, Colm, to show him that he means silence and distance from his former friend, fulfills his ominous promise and cuts off one of his fingers (for beginners), thus canceling his violin skill! While the Irish Civil War rages on at home, opposite the peaceful island, a petty war of squabbles and slander over a trivial issue meets in a remarkable, if very different, setting between the two executioners of Shipping to Bruges valuefor him Brendan Gleason and the Colin Farrellin the story of stubborn, wounded people caught between philosophies and selfishness, determined to pull the rope as far as they can–the two, vividly contrasted, dance uniquely.

Acting like a 12-year-old, Patrick is comforted by the village idiot and kicking his violent cop father Dominic (the stunning Barry Keoghan first seen in Holy stag to George Lanthimosagain alongside Farrell), to calm a distraught Patrick, while Colm reveals his volatile mood in his usual confessions to the parish priest.

The bottom line is that in a microcosm of gossip and idleness, at the same time that the world is changing and burning, a man desires, and at last has, the inalienable right not to kill his time, and to leave even a modest legacy the future as a noble and vague artistic allusion, committing an almost sin, albeit It was by no means a crime, to break off an old relationship.