It was the opening night film of the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Ray's disposition changes when he meets Chloë, a hip young woman who sells drugs on the local set of a movie featuring Jimmy, an American dwarf. Ken's the old hand, fascinated by the Medieval, with a fatherly attitude toward Ray, who's young and bored but chastened after the London job. Pedro Pascal and Jon Favreau on the Future of the Newest ‘Star Wars’ Franchise, Demi Lovato's 'Vote' Visual Vetoed at Billboard Awards Following Searing Performance of Anti-Trump Song. Ken, on the other hand, soon enjoys drinking up the town’s preening quaintness and well-preserved medieval architecture. And for McDonagh, it … In Bruges will be a huge awards-magnet, and soon the silverware will be hitting it with a clang. The film stars Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson. McDonagh writes himself into corners he can’t get out of, such as a bizarre, cocaine-fueled scene in which Jimmy yammers on about an impending race war between whites and blacks. They obediently do, though Ray won’t stop bitching and moaning about Bruges as a “hellhole” and hardly up to the standards of hometown Dublin. Ray, still haunted by the bloodshed in London, hates the place, while Ken, even as he keeps a fatherly eye on Ray's often profanely funny exploits, finds his mind and soul being expanded by the beauty and serenity of the city. Academy Award-winning writer/director Martin McDonagh takes audiences on a killingly funny trip In Bruges, which is world-premiering as the opening-night film of the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Could Chadwick Boseman Be the First Person to Earn Two Posthumous Oscar Acting Nominations in Same Year? 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Bruges city boosters will be over the moon — if not with Ray’s commentary, then with pic’s location choices. The film has since gone on to achieve cult status. McDonagh’s transition here brings to mind David Mamet (a strong influence on McDonagh’s stage work), who similarly switched from writing plays to writing and directing brainy thrillers for the screen like “House of Games,” “Heist” and “Spartan.” In both cases, men with exceptional gifts for theatrical language feel compelled to suppress many of their nerviest instincts in favor of weak plot-making. Farrell personally deserves all the plaudits. Filmed on location, In Bruges finds two hitmen (Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson) hiding out in the small storybook Belgian town of Bruges after a botched job gets them into hot water with their boss. But the longer they stay waiting for Harry's call, the more surreal their experience becomes, as they find themselves in weird encounters with locals, tourists, violent medieval art, a dwarf American actor (Jordan Prentice) shooting a European art film, Dutch prostitutes, and a potential romance for Ray in the form of Chloë (Clémence Poésy), who may have some dark secrets of her own. Martin McDonagh benches the bolder side of his writing skills and tries his hand at genre and plot in his highly erratic filmmaking debut, "In Bruges." And when the call from Harry does finally come, Ken and Ray's vacation becomes a life-and-death struggle of darkly comic proportions and surprisingly emotional consequences. Colin Farrell won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy for the film, while Martin McDonagh won a BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay. But the plot machinations expose McDonagh as a poor handler of even semi-logical action, draining the film of any real point once the gunfire and bloodletting end. He wrote and directed Six Shooter, starring Brendan Gleeson, which earned him the 2006 Academy Award for Best Live-Action Short Film. It was the opening night film of the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. In voiceover, Ray explains that the guys have been ordered by their boss Harry (Ralph Fiennes) to leave London and go to Bruges, and wait for his phone call. Oscars Wiki is a FANDOM Movies Community. Synopsis: London based hit men Ray and Ken are told by their boss Harry Waters to lie low in Bruges, Belgium for up to two weeks following their latest hit, which resulted in the death of an innocent bystander.

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