The Banshees of Inisherin
I understand why Colin Farrel got a Volpi Cup for Best Actor. His character is kind and gentle childlike man, living with his sister and stock of a cow, horse and donkey Jenny. His best friend, portrayed by Brandon Gleeson, stops talking to him eventually telling him - it's because he is dull and he, his friend, doesn't want to spend his time on dullness anymore. He plays the violin and wants to create something in art to leave his mark in history just as Mozart did. That made me think of this mind vs heart dichotomy, expressed by Dostoevsky in his 'Idiot' novel: “I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we’re both unhappy, and we both suffer.” Colin and Brandon's characters are placed on one of the Irish islands in 1923. The Irish folklore is always lurking here and there mostly expressed by the recurring old lady, personification of Banshees, mystically appearing everywhere the death is and predicting when the ne...