Wild Horse Nine: Martin McDonagh’s Odd-Couple CIA Drama Is Really a Love Story
The film pairs historical drama with a male friendship story as the crisis in Chile unfolds around the 1973 coup.
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More sardonic than ever, Irishman Martin McDonagh takes on US foreign policy in "Wild Horse Nine", which follows two CIA agents in 1973, between Easter Island and ChileChushou of the Venice Mostra, twice awarded as the best screenwriter for Three Billboards: the Revenge Boards (2017) and The Banshees of Inisherin (2022), Martin McDonagh presented this year Wild Horse Nine, who won the Prix d'interprétation to his surprise star John Malkovich. Fo…
The Wild Horse Nine team channeled Billy Wilder for their modern screwball comedy
Since Martin McDonagh broke out with In Bruges in 2008, the director-screenwriter has straddled the line between dark comedy and bleak drama, often landing in an emotionally raw yet amusing place between the two. He’s especially homed in on the dynamic of tenuous male friendships, which drove movies like In Bruges, The Banshees Of Inisherin, and his new film, Wild Horse Nine. “I like exploring male relationships or the sensitivity that male rela…
Wild Horse Nine: Martin McDonagh’s odd-couple CIA drama is really a love story
“Is this a joke?” asks a young Chilean woman early in Martin McDonagh’s new film, Wild Horse Nine. She is trying to grasp something said to her by another character; just as easily, however, she could be wondering exactly what kind of film she is in. For Wild Horse Nine itself is tonally unstable, mixing farcical events with historical drama and comic wordplay with an affecting portrait of male friendship. This mixing of moods and blending of ge…
"The greatest fault of today's times? The lack of empathy and the absence of humility," say the protagonists of Martin McDonagh's expected 'Wild Horse Nine', John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell, interviewed by Adnkronos at the last Venice Film Festival. The film - marked Searchlight Pictures - opens shortly before the Chilean coup in 1973: the agents of Cia Chris and Lee are sent by their leader, MJ, on Easter Island. Between the statues of Rapa Nui…
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