Writer/director Martin McDonagh and star Kerry Condon on creating the isolated world of Banshees_Movie.
On the island of Inishmore in Galway Bay, there are drystone walls dividing the fields. That's a common enough sight in Ireland, but not like on the tiny, windswept island: Here, there are fields within fields within fields, some barely a few dozen strides wide. These distinctive boxes are why Martin McDonagh decided to film his follow-up to, on Inishmore.
“It’s small-town shops in Ireland, and quiet farmhouses, and a simpler, quieter, sadder kind of story.” before his career as a filmmaker, said that his approach to dialogue has stayed constant across media in that it's"all heightened and theatrical." However,undoubtedly hearkens back to his career-launching plays of the Leenane Trilogy and the incomplete Aran Islands Trilogy.
It's not the history, but the quietness that is pivotal to the story, and how it's told. Colm basically just becomes tired of Pádraic's constant chatter, and so McDonagh stripped down the sound design to the point where all that can be heard are the words and silences between them. He said,"I hate it when cigarettes become a character because they're so noisy, and there were loads of places where the ocean could become [one].
"It's not a film about the ocean," McDonagh added."It's a film about two blokes talking – and their sister."