In Bruges
Opening night- packed for playwright Martin McDonaugh?s first film, a terrific [nearly] two hours of film making.......perfect drama. Skillfully,McDonaugh presents the human drama, we resonate to. His theater of the absurd, [a la Becket] enables the audience to withstand the violence - this balance, is true genius. Acting - magnificent, as is directing, editing. ?Bruges? is far, better than There Will Be Blood and No Country For Old Men.In Bruges the human comedy, the human predicament, is all there. Another stroke of McDonaugh genius, is to locate the plot in the historical background of painter, Hieronymus Bosch who, in his inimitable style always fills his works with the frenzied human conditions. Because McDonaugh wants us to have these associations, some of the painter?s works are shown briefly in ?Bruges.? See this film, way before you go to the other 2 American films, which pale in comparison. Irish writers are in a sublime category, all their own.