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The Banshees of Inisherin scene 2: EXT. HILL ABOVE COLM’S HOUSE - DAY · The Reading Room

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The Banshees of Inisherin
Scene 2

The Banshees of Inisherin · written by Martin McDonagh · 2022

Padraic approaches Colm’s smoking cottage above the beach.

Scene 2 of 174 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one

Act oneAct two

Opens the film, 1:35 long

The story so farBefore scene 2

In 1923 on Inisherin, Padraic tries to restore his friendship with Colm after Colm suddenly cuts him off, but Colm’s escalating demand for solitude draws their neighbors into a costly feud.

Just before
Scene 1
Padraic walks Inisherin’s lanes past the graveyard, ruins, lake, and dock, then looks down from a hill toward Colm’s cottage.
Scene 2
This scene

2EXT. HILL ABOVE COLM’S HOUSE - DAY

A lonely cottage overlooking a wild crescent beach. Smoke is rising from its chimney. PADRAIC continues on down to it.

← Scene 1EXT. VARIOUS ISLAND LOCATIONS - DAY Read the screenplay from here Scene 3 →EXT. COLM’S HOUSE - DAY