Friendship can be a strange thing, particularly when it’s forged through decades of deception, violence and the occasional disagreement over whether it’s appropriate to kill someone during a meal. In Martin McDonagh’s darkly comic Wild Horse Nine, the unlikely tenderness between two hardened CIA operatives becomes the emotional heartbeat of a story otherwise steeped in…
Martin McDonagh has long been fascinated by men who would sooner insult, maim or murder one another than admit they actually care. Friendship in his films is rarely expressed through anything resembling conventional affection; it arrives through arguments, threats, profanities and, occasionally, the reluctant acknowledgement that losing someone might hurt considerably more than expected. It…
