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| Year of first release: 2017 | |
| Director: Martin McDonagh | |
| Actors: Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell | |
| Country: USA, GB | |
| Genre: Drama, Black Comedy | |
| Conditions of visioning: 01.01.2018, Schauburg, OV Sneak Preview, English with German subtitle | |
| Synopsis: After months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes (McDormand) makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at William Willoughby (Harrelson), the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Dixon (Rockwell), an immature mother's boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing's law enforcement is only exacerbated. | |
| Review: This is the first movie of the year 2018 and it was a good first day! The story offers a nice conflict that sound quite common. And this starts in a rural barely corrupt atmosphere. The fantastic evolution of the roles is based on the human conflict between Mildred and Dixon. Between her sharp and acid dialogues and his disgusting and absurd behaviour. There is no minute without a great acting, a great dialogue. The humor of the harsch words spoken by Frances McDormand is great and rare. Hilarious! With Sam Rockwell I expected great acting as in Moon. And I have not been disappointed at all. After just his first appearance, you will hate him and think "stupid bastard!". Frances McDormand has also a merciless role and more uniform in her stubbornness and latent violence. Woody Harrelson does not have a big role but a difficult one as he is presented as an asshole by these billboards and finally might be the only one behaving with moral and pragmatism and therefore is confronted to different situations. The cast is just excellent for the story. The directing is really good. To get so much from the actors with a plot that looks quite simple and only with means of the situations and dialogues and setting different atmospheres. |
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Rating: 9 /10
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Wednesday, January 31, 2018
Three billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
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Following your positive review (and the awards the movie received), I watched it on 11.04.2018 on an in-flight entertainment system.
ReplyDeleteThe three main actors are indeed great, I love how Frances McDormand's acting has evolved/matured since Fargo. And the evolution of the character played by Sam Rockwell is very interesting.
The dialogs are not as crispy as ones from a Coen brothers movie but are punchy enough. I was just a bit disappointed by the (light spoiler) rather open ending, which gave me the feeling that we were told only one part of a story, not the whole of it.
I enjoyed the movie nevertheless and it gets from me a 7/10.