Finally someone else shares my views about The Banshees.
“It's as if someone fed every single cartoonish Irish stereotype into an AI website and said: 'Write a film about Ireland in the 1920s.'”
https://extra.ie/2023/02/02/opinion/oscars-lauding-banshees-of-inisherin
@lavenderlens I get those criticisms, but here me out
I see a country confident enough to claim a part of its history and present it (stereotypes or not) as a backdrop for a story that has universal resonance.
There's a lot of crappy films about England that have no reflection on the country I grew up in.
In common with many post-colonial nations, Ireland for too long was "not Britain" and has a stronger sense of identity than England does. That's a process that's ongoing.
