- Directed by: Martin McDonagh
- Cast: Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson
- Year: 2007
- Duration: 102min
- Certificate: 18
- Type: Film
“After I killed him, I dropped the gun in the Thames and walked home to await instructions. ‘Get the f*** out of London. Get to Bruges…’ "
After a hit job goes horribly wrong, a reluctant pair of Irish hitmen are sent to lie low in the wintry Belgian city of Bruges.
Before 2022’s The Banshees of Inisherin, Oscar-winning writer-director Martin McDonagh first paired Banshees co-stars Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell (alongside Ralph Fiennes as a superbly sweary gangland boss) in this typically tragicomic tale of a couple of contract killers holed up in Belgium over the festive season. Set against a backdrop of fairy-lit canals and picturesque medieval plazas, McDonagh’s pitch-black but surprisingly poignant crime comedy is a stone-cold Christmas cult classic.
“Like The Pogues’ Fairytale of New York – dwelling as it does in broken dreams, despair and a Christmas Eve visit to the drunk tank – In Bruges is an essential part of the Yuletide canon”
National Post
