Stop it again 10 minutes from the end and you won’t be any clearer. Stop the film halfway through and you won’t know where it’s going. In real life, it was a grieving father who put them there after his daughter was allegedly strangled by her husband. Initially setting itself up as a frontier-justice drama replete with saloons and guns and populated by white hats and black hats, it writhes and bucks and turns inside out. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri was inspired by true events when Martin McDonagh drove past several similar billboards along Interstate 10 near Vidor, Texas, just outside Beaumont. Three Billboards is a movie in which even the second and third-rung players are gifted fully fleshed characters to inhabit – Caleb Landry Jones, Peter Dinklage and John Hawkes all provide sterling support – and which refuses to tick any screenwriting boxes unless said box is then royally upended. A second golden baldie is surely in the post.Īlso in the running will be Rockwell, who does some of his best work with a character who’s mean-spirited, physically abusive, racist… and so much more, as McDonagh’s sparkling screenplay again veers direction to flip assumptions on their head. “I assume ya can’t say nothing defamatory, and ya can’t say ‘Fuck’? That right?” It’s a powerhouse performance, McDormand’s best since winning an Oscar for 1996’s Fargo. “What’s the law on what ya can and can’t say on a billboard?” she asks. From pioneer stock, she’s no-nonsense to the bone. ![]() She is, in fact, a hugely likeable, deeply sympathetic figure who would nonetheless take your understanding and grind it into the mud. But Mildred’s moral centre is unimpeachable.
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