The Banshees Of Inisherin Review: 9 Ups & 1 Down
4. Ben Davis' Excellent Cinematography
Given that it's set on a sprawling rural Irish island, there was very little prospect of The Banshees of Inisherin being anything less than a gorgeous-looking movie, and courtesy of his regular collaborating cinematographer Ben Davis, it's one of the most ravishing movies of the year.
While its visuals aren't high concept in the slightest, the gorgeous, wide framing of the natural location only serves to emphasise the crushing loneliness closing in on Pádraic, and how the aggressively small-town mindset of the locals is formed.
Davis, who recently shot Eternals, certainly knows a thing or two about jaw-dropping landscapes, and ensures so many images in this film could be hung on a wall.
Again, it's not the showiest cinematography of the year - it's no Top Gun: Maverick - but the visuals are perfectly in service of a story that is itself low-key and intimate.