- Directed by: Martin McDonagh
- Cast: Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson
- Year: 2007
- Duration: 102min
- Certificate: 18
- Type: Film
After a hit job goes horribly wrong, a pair of mismatched Irish hitmen are sent to lie low in the wintry Belgian city of Bruges.
Before 2022’s The Banshees of Inisherin, Oscar-winning writer-director Martin McDonagh first cast Banshees co-stars Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell (alongside Ralph Fiennes as a weaselly gangland boss) in this typically tragicomic tale of a couple of contract killers holed up in Belgium over Christmas. Set against a deceptively idyllic backdrop of fairy-lit canals and picturesque medieval plazas, McDonagh’s pitch-black but surprisingly poignant crime comedy is a stone-cold Christmas cult classic.
“Like The Pogues’ Fairytale of New York” – dwelling as it does in broken dreams, despair and a visit to the drunk tank – In Bruges is an essential part of the Yuletide canon”
National Post