written and directed by: Martin McDonagh
starring: Frances McDormand, Caleb Landry Jones, Lucas Hedges
seen on 5th March, 2018
Olala, don't funk with my billboards. I will have to think about it for a while and I was expecting something a bit different than this, which of course is not entirely the film's fault. Maybe in time I will arrive to the understanding of what the film was about. The character development seemed a bit off and not completely understandable given the limits of the time span shown in the film. I had some real trouble with some of the music, mainly with the songs (and the tone they brought with them), the pieces written by Carter Burwell were the best. And a lot of other strange details threw me right out of the film all the time: like Frances being nervous and touching her face while moving her mouth in one shot and right in the follow-up shot she does not move one facial muscle, her hand is not even in the shot and she shows no previously seen emotions. Is there something I'm missing completely? In a film about inner experiences I find things like this extremely disruptive. Or that particular scene when they are replacing the burnt posters with their copies and all of them look so happy without a hint of all the terrible stuff that happened around it. Their happiness seems so out of place that I just cannot connect with the film and its story, or rather I feel like I misinterpret the whole thing.
Just a month ago I would not think I'd ever say that, but right now I hope Dunkirk wins all the Oscars and other awards. (But Lucas Hedges was great again, it was a real treat to watch his performance.)
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