The Banshees of Inisherin has been one of the biggest movies of the 2022-2023 awards season. The movie has been nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and four of its stars are up for acting nominations. At the recent Golden Globe Awards, the film picked up Best Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy) and Best Original Screenplay, as well as Best Actor (Musical or Comedy) for Colin Farrell.
The Banshees of Inisherin was directed by acclaimed British-Irish filmmaker Martin McDonagh. McDonagh is a director of several black comedies, including In Bruges (2008), Seven Psychopaths (2012), and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017). Three Billboards won several Oscars at the 2018 Academy Awards, including Best Actress for s McDormand and Best ing Actor for Sam Rockwell. The movie was released in theaters in the fall of 2022. Now, it is widely available for film fans to watch from home in the run-up to the Academy Awards and streaming on multiple popular platforms, including HBO Max.
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Where Will The Banshees Of Inisherin Be Streaming?
The Banshees of Inisherin is streaming for free on HBO Max, which is also available as a Prime Video add-on channel. Prime s can experience a free trial of HBO Max through the service's streamer. For cable service s, Banshees is also streaming on DirecTV.
The Banshees of Inisherin can also be watched on other streaming services by buying or renting the film. The movie can be bought on many major streaming services, such as YouTube, Google Play, and Apple TV. The film is also available to purchase as a physical copy on both Blu-ray and DVD.
Who Is The Cast Of The Banshees Of Inisherin?
The protagonist of The Banshees of Inisherin is Pádraic Súilleabháin, played by Irish actor Colin Farrell. Farrell is nominated for Best Actor at the 2023 Academy Awards for his performance. The film also has ing roles by fellow Irish actors Brendan Gleeson, Kerry Condon, and Barry Keoghan. Gleeson, Condon, and Keoghan all earned their first Academy Award nominations for the film in the ing Actor and Actress categories.
Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson have frequently collaborated with director Martin McDonagh and previously starred in his black action-comedy film, In Bruges (2008), as two Irish hitmen on a mission in Bruges, Belgium. Farrell was also in his follow-up film, Seven Psychopaths (2012).
What Is The Banshees Of Inisherin About?
The Banshees of Inisherin is set around 100 years ago, towards the end of the Irish Civil War and the subsequent Irish independence from British rule in 1923. The remote fictional Isle of Inisherin is away from the forefront of the conflict. Resident of the Isle, Pádraic Súilleabháin (Farrell), an optimistic and upbeat man, is devastated to learn his friend of many decades, Colm Doherty (Gleeson), no longer wants to be acquainted with him. Colm explains that he finds Pádraic too boring and that he lacks interest in the finer arts.
In order to maintain his distance from Pádraic, Colm promises to cut off one of his own fingers any time Pádraic tries to talk to him. In attempting to lessen the tensions between the pair, Colm's sister, Siobhán Súilleabháin (Condon), intervenes. Soon, Siobhán meets Dominic Kearney (Keoghan), a young man abused by his father. Dominic is quickly taken by the kindness of the siblings, and quickly gets caught up in the family's unraveling lives as the tensions between the former friends escalate to a violent level.
