A CIA Operative Reckons with History in McDonagh's Venice ...
The dark comedy follows two CIA operatives and explores guilt, regret and U.S. interventionism as it competes for Venice's Golden Lion.
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Review | Wild Horse Nine: Martin McDonagh returns with jet-black comedy
4/5 stars With Wild Horse Nine, the fifth film of his much-heralded career, Martin McDonagh returns to the joys of his first. The director’s 2008 debut, In Bruges, was a sublimely written tale of two hitmen arguing in the picture-postcard town of the title. Similarly, his latest introduces us to two CIA operatives bickering as they head to the remote Chilean territory of Easter Island in 1973. That is not to say Wild Horse Nine – screening in co…
'Wild Horse Nine' Review: Malkovich, Rockwell In Martin McDonagh Film
After several Oscar nominations and BAFTA wins for his first four films, it is nice to report that writer-director Martin McDonagh is, with his latest Wild Horse Nine, five for five. And though it is hard to rank a group that includes In Bruges, Seven Psychopaths, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and The Banshees of Inisherin, there is something about this one that keeps hanging on in my head and I can’t get it out. It is easily one of …
A CIA operative reckons with history in McDonagh's Venice ...
In the filmmaker's fifth feature film, shot largely in the stunning landscapes of the volcanic island of Chile, 72-year-old John Malkovich plays Chris, a cynical American intelligence agent tormented by his conscience as the US-backed overthrow of Chilean leftist President Salvador Allende looms. He is joined by Lee, his longtime partner, portrayed by Sam Rockwell. "The idea that, ultimately, America isn't always interested in democracy fascina…
A day of masters, tomorrow 3 September at the Venice International Film Festival. (ANSA)
The film presented in competition in Venice 83 is set just before the Chilean coup in 1973 on Easter Island. Among the protagonists John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell. And already we talk about Oscar
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