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Director
Martin McDonagh
Credits
Producer: Graham Broadbent. Writer: Martin McDonagh
Principal Cast
Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Ralph Fiennes, Clémence Posey,
Category
Feature
In his first effort in feature filmmaking Martin McDonagh racked up numerous accolades – including an Academy Award nomination for Best Screenplay – with this delightfully-black comedy about a pair of Irish hitmen hiding out in Bruges after a botched mission. Giving two nuanced performances Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson play hitmen Ray and Ken; Ken enchanted by Bruges’ medieval culture, Ray disinterested, petulant, and rapidly breaking down in response to recent tragedies. Allowing the sacred and profane to blend together, questions of suicide and criminal ethics quickly become involved in a madcap plot involving incompetent local thieves, a drug-addled dwarf, and temperamental tourists. The late arrival of Ralph Fiennes as a psychotic crimelord intent on visiting brutal justice upon the pair completes this inventive thriller that, despite its black comic vein, is deeply humane.
107 minutes, UK/USA, 2008, Colour
ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: MCGAHERN: SHORT STORIES (PROGRAMME 2) 13.10
BLACKBIRD BLACKBIRD BLACKBERRY 16:15, 20:50
KIDNAPPED 20:30
LOVE LIES BLEEDING 13:15 (OC), 18:10
PERFECT DAYS 13:40
THAT THEY MAY FACE THE RISING SUN 15.50, 18.20, 20.40
THE TEACHERS’ LOUNGE 18.40
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