"Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" (2017) Directed by Martin McDonagh

“Because there ain’t no God, the whole world’s empty”

So laments “Mildred Hayes” in the shape of Frances McDormand on her way to her second Oscar win at the 2018 Academy Awards and who, at the time of writing, has now secured both a third and a fourth Gold Oscar statuette for her incredible central performance in 2021’s Nomadland, a film she would also share her fourth award as part of the producing team for another bittersweet lament, this time to the nomadic travelling families from America’s wasteland of forgotten towns. I have long held an acting love for Frances McDormand which traces all the way back to 1996 and the first of her husband’s truly great masterpieces of modern cinema. Frances is married to Joel Coen who, along with his brother Ethan, are the world renowned film directing Coen Brothers and whenever the need arises for me hide from a wicked world, I turn to their classic of all time from 1996, Fargo. Quixotically, the cinematic brothers don’t actually sugar coat the wicked world but paint it in surreal colours as well as the awkward life events that befall a central character who sees a kaleidoscope of chaos coming their way and, run as they might, can never, ever, avoid. Frances wasn’t the marquee star name or indeed central character in Fargo, but she became both as halfway through she entered the maelstrom of madness in the unforgiving cold and snow of Fargo, North Dakota, and stole both the film and my cinematic heart.

The above opening paragraph is taken from my spoiler free review of "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" originally penned and posted to my Medium blog site on 19th November 2022 and the review can be read for free and in full via my Substack site linked immediately below:

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