From the filmmaker behind Oscar-winner Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri comes another awards-baiting film called The Banshees of Inisherin.
Set in Ireland, Irish actor Colin Farrell is free to speak in his non-Hollywood native tongue and could win an Oscar for his performance.
After their hilarious outing In Bruges, Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson reunite with each other and their writer/director Martin McDonagh for an entirely different story.
This is The Banshees of Inisherin and once again they are a delight to behold.
Padraic (Farrell) and Colm (Gleeson) are the best of friends. They meet at the pub every day at 2 and they've done it every day at 2 since anyone on the tiny island of Inisherin can remember.
Then one day, Colm quite simply yet definitively declares their friendship is over.
Happy-go-lucky Padraic runs the emotional gamut of disbelief to bewilderment from joyous hope to bitter disappointment and you may well see Colin Farrell's astonishing performance win him an Oscar.
Other players on this desolate windswept stage are rich and memorable. Rising star Barry Keoghan as village idiot Dominic - or is he - is an absolute stand-out. Kerry Condon as Padraic's loyal sister Siobhan as much so.
And as the wheels slowly and devastatingly fall off of this once sturdy horse and cart we are taken on a downhill ride nobody was expecting.
There are so many layers here that Banshees will linger long after viewing but rather weirdly I didn't feel the same deep connection with this story and its band of characters as I had with Billboards. Farrell and Gleeson though? I could sit in a cinema with them for days.
Four stars.
