CERTIFICATES – Incomprehension, sadness, anger, loss… Some friendship breakups can lead to the same suffering as a breakup. A pain that the environment sometimes seeks to minimize.
“I don’t love you anymore, that’s all,” Colm (played by Brendan Gleeson) tells his old friend Padraic (played by Colin Farrell) in a calm, irreverent tone. In the movie Banshees of InisherinIn cinemas from Wednesday 28 December 2022, director Martin McDonagh tells the story of the end of a friendship between two men whose complicity enabled them to escape boredom in the isolated Irish countryside. Colm has decided to stay away from Padraic. On the contrary, he is met with disbelief, anger and sadness. The filmmaker here sheds light on a topic that is rarely discussed, namely, friendship breakup. A disunity that can be just as painful, if not more, than a breakup.
And for good reason. “Friendship is a mental intimacy at least as deep as love,” emphasizes psychotherapist Sarah Seriewicz (1). And maybe even more, for that matter. Aren’t there things we confide in a friend and not necessarily in our romantic partner? Friendship…
Source: Le Figaro
