In Bruges

Director: Martin McDonagh

2008 / 107min / 35mm

In the fairy-tale medieval city of Bruges, Belgium, two London-based Irish hitmen, Ray and Ken (Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson) take in the sights, reflect on missions past, and await their next assignment—an unexpected and unwelcome surprise. Making nods to Harold Pinter and Samuel Beckett while very much speaking in a voice of its own, playwright-turned-filmmaker McDonagh’s feature debut—and his first collaboration with his The Banshees of Inisherin stars Farrell and Gleeson—is a wickedly funny and deeply morally serious film about guilt and redemption.