Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer gives "In Bruges" a recommendation.
Synopsis for the movie "In Bruges"
Bruges (pronounced “broozh”), the most well-preserved medieval city in the whole of Belgium, is a welcoming destination for travellers from all over the world. But for hit men Ray (Colin Farrell) and Ken (Brendan Gleeson), it could be their final destination; a difficult job has resulted in the pair being ordered right before Christmas by their London boss Harry (two-time Academy Award nominee Ralph Fiennes) to go and cool their heels in the storybook Flemish city for a couple of weeks. Ken and Ray’s vacation becomes a life-and-death struggle of darkly comic proportions and surprisingly emotional consequences.
Opened February 8, 2008
Runtime: 1 hr. 41 min.
R - strong bloody violence, pervasive language and some drug use
Cast: Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Ralph Fiennes, Clémence Poésy, Jérémie Rénier
Director: Martin McDonagh
Genres: Action Comedy, Buddy Film, Comedy
Showtimes for In Bruges at Fandango.com
As self-conscious as it is, "In Bruges" manages to toy with cliché while avoiding it entirely. If, as David Mamet has said, the difference between gangster films and film noir is that gangster films sentimentalize the gangster while film noir "depicts a Darwinian zero-sum world, a world without rules and without judgment," then "In Bruges" is a film noir in which there is plenty of judgment (including Hieronymus Bosch's painting of "The Last Judgment"), but none of it has any real or lasting consequence. Chocano's full reivew for "In Bruges"
Synopsis for the movie "In Bruges"
Bruges (pronounced “broozh”), the most well-preserved medieval city in the whole of Belgium, is a welcoming destination for travellers from all over the world. But for hit men Ray (Colin Farrell) and Ken (Brendan Gleeson), it could be their final destination; a difficult job has resulted in the pair being ordered right before Christmas by their London boss Harry (two-time Academy Award nominee Ralph Fiennes) to go and cool their heels in the storybook Flemish city for a couple of weeks. Ken and Ray’s vacation becomes a life-and-death struggle of darkly comic proportions and surprisingly emotional consequences.
Opened February 8, 2008
Runtime: 1 hr. 41 min.
R - strong bloody violence, pervasive language and some drug use
Cast: Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Ralph Fiennes, Clémence Poésy, Jérémie Rénier
Director: Martin McDonagh
Genres: Action Comedy, Buddy Film, Comedy
Showtimes for In Bruges at Fandango.com
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