![]() This turns out to be a bit of inadvertent prophecy. Before he sets out, he makes a remark about Colm to his sister Siobhán ( Kerry Condon), who sarcastically replies, “Maybe he just don’t like you no more.” The Carter Burwell score evokes idyllic times, and we see life is rather easy for Pádraic (Farrell) a milk farmer who lives with his sister in a modest cottage and, apparently, calls on his old friend Colm (Gleeson) just about every day at two. It begins with a beautiful overhead shot of the title Irish island, all green below a clear blue sky (in this picture it only rains at night, which, considering actual weather patterns in Ireland, places the film in yet another genre, that of fantasy). This being a McDonagh work, it’s a comedy of mortification as well as exasperation.
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