In Bruges (2008)

Director:

Martin McDonagh

Writer:

Martin McDonagh (writer)

Release Date:

29 February 2008 (Poland)

Genre:

Comedy | Crime | Drama

Tagline:

Shoot first. Sightsee later.

Plot:

Holed up in Bruges, Belgium after a difficult job, two hit men begin to differ on their views of life and death as they become used to local customs.

Plot Keywords:

Shot In The Chest | Bloody Body Of Child | Husband Wife Relationship | Shot In The Back | Karate Chop

Awards:

1 win & 2 nominations

Cast

Elizabeth Berrington	...	Natalie
Rudy Blomme	...	Ticket Seller
Olivier Bonjour	...	Film Director
Mark Donovan	...	Overweight Man
Ann Elsley	...	Overweight Woman #2
Colin Farrell	...	Ray
Jean-Marc Favorin	...	Policeman
Ralph Fiennes	...	Harry Waters
Brendan Gleeson	...	Ken
Eric Godon	...	Yuri
Zeljko Ivanek	...	Canadian Guy
Sachi Kimura	...	Imamoto
Anna Madeley	...	Denise
Louis Nummy	...	Harry's Child #3
Clémence Poésy	...	Chloë

MPAA:

Rated R for strong bloody violence, pervasive language and some drug use.

Runtime:

107 min

Country:

UK | Belgium

Language:

English | German

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital

Certification:

Canada:14A (Manitoba) | UK:18 | Netherlands:16 | South Africa:16LV | Ireland:16 | Canada:13+ (Québec) | Germany:16 | USA:R (certificate #43954) | Finland:K-15 | Canada:18A (Alberta/British Columbia/Ontario)

Filming Locations:

Brugge, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium

Company:

Blueprint Pictures

Trivia:

In order to create the feeling of the holiday season, Christmas decorations were kept in some streets of Bruges until the end of March. The town council made an official communication to the people of Bruges explaining the reason why.

Goofs:

Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In the restaurant scene, Ray gets into a fight with a Canadian guy because Chloë smoked. Ray states that she is allowed to smoke, as they're in a smoking area. However, these smoking areas have been abolished in Belgium since January 2007. Smoking is now forbidden in most public areas, including restaurants.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Ray: After I killed him, I dropped the gun in the Thames, washed the residue off me hands in the bathroom of a Burger King, and walked home to await instructions. Shortly thereafter the instructions came through - "Get the fuck out of London, you dumb fucks. Get to Bruges." I didn't even know where Bruges was.
[pause]
Ray: It's in Belgium.

Movie Connections:

References "Jesus of Nazareth" (1977)

Soundtrack:

St. John The Gambler

What a Great Movie

I've used IMDb for years but have never felt the urge to post a review until now. I had the pleasure of attending an advanced screening of this movie in NYC last night to which Colin Farrell attended. I bought the screening tickets just wanting to bring my fiancé to see some celebrities in person while not knowing much about the movie. I figured it would be a "hard-to-understand" foreign, indie film whose humor would be lost on a "dumb American." However, the truth was absolutely the opposite. My hard-to-please fiancé agreed.

The movie is a bit slow for the first half but it's entirely necessary to set the mood and the contrast between that and the second half. That's all I'll say so as not to spoil anything. It is really a great movie. There's comedy, beautiful cinematography, and awesome action scenes, albeit scattered throughout and absent at times when the viewer may be growing weary. I'd highly recommend seeing this movie. It's definitely worth the price of a movie ticket while most of the crap out there these days isn't worth the cost of the paper they print the tickets on.

Let us all know what you think after you see it.