McDormand stars as Mildred Hayes, whose daughter Angela’s body was found raped and burned by the side of the road. (More ambitious, too, than his second feature, the wickedly subversive 2012 crime-comedy Seven Psychopaths, of which I was an exceptional admirer.) Three Billboards is substantially more ambitious than either. His debut, Six Shooter, won the 2006 Academy Award for Live-Action Short Film his first feature, In Bruges, was nominated for Best Original Screenplay in 2009. Though it’s set in a (fictional) town in the Midwest, it exists very much in the moral terrain of Flannery O’Connor’s bleak, existential humor, as is made clear by the fact that we first meet one character while he is reading “A Good Man Is Hard to Find.” Even for fans of McDonagh-and I am certainly one- Three Billboards is a revelation, and among the very best films of 2017.Īn Anglo-Irish playwright with multiple Tony Award nominations, McDonagh came to filmmaking relatively late. It contains both the most moving scene I saw in a theater this year and the most mordant bit of black comedy.
It is by turns heartbreaking, harrowing in its violence, and very, very funny, and it features Oscar-level performances by Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, and Sam Rockwell. Rather, it is a film that continually complicates and recomplicates itself, denying viewers the comfort of easy moral footing. And Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is assuredly not that movie. Fordīut Martin McDonagh is not a typical writer-director.
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