The Job of Songs review - folk melodies and melancholia in rural Ireland

Lila Schmitz's documentary offers a candid look at Irish music and community struggles in a small Irish village known for its bar-room sessions That The Banshees of Inisherin may apparently be a documentary is the main takeaway of this swift but wide- and deep-ranging investigation into the musical community of Doolin, County Clare. It's a truism to point out the absorption with the landscape in Irish folk music, and a certain attendant melancholia. But it's hard not to go back to such ideas whe...