Spotlight on storytellers: The Banshees Of Inisherin composer Carter Burwell on storytelling through music

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Friday, March 10, 2023 3:50 pm

Storytellers Spotlight: Carter Burwell on storytelling with music

LOS ANGELES — Carter Burwell has composed music for all of Martin McDonagh’s feature films. His nomination for Banshee of Inishereen is his third Oscar nomination, following 2015’s Carol and his 2017 collaboration with Martin McDonagh, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.

Although the film is very time and place specific, Burwell was asked by McDonagh to compose a score that ignored the “Irish character” of the film’s setting.

“The score sort of goes somewhere else,” Burwell said. “It’s not exactly Irish.”

Burwell told On the Red Carpet that the choices help to summarize the story, helping to turn it into a fable about human nature.

The Banshee of Inisherina also touches on themes of loneliness and the need to connect, which are resonating after years of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“We’ve been told for years to stay away from each other where we lost people we loved.”

Ultimately, Burwell views cinema and storytelling as a way for people to see the world from a different perspective.

“Maybe it will help open your heart to what other people are going through,” he said.

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