![]() No one better could play Mildred than Frances McDormand – what a track record this actor has logged giving great performances in really fine motion pictures! And the savvy casting goes on for Three Billboards with other heavyweight actors, most all taking on – slightly overboard, I must say – larger than life characters residing in or near this delightful, small burg nestled in what looks much to me like the sylvan Ozarks of southern Missouri. How can I better say that Angela’s mama, Mildred, is highly pissed? She lets it boil over to pure rage. Ebbing is an imagined village out of the mind of Martin McDonaugh, an Oscar-winning Brit/Irish film director and playwright, who also created two other feature length movies: In Bruges (2008) and Seven Psychopaths (2012).Īn angry lament for justice is the spark for three fallow billboards on the outskirts of Ebbing to take on a scathing rhetorical interrogative aimed at Ebbing’s head cop about why he’s not yet apprehended the culprit who raped and murdered a local teenage girl named Angela. ![]() There’s a narrow, two-lane highway just outside Ebbing, Missouri, along which a very big commotion comes to pass, even if there’s really no such town in the Show-Me-State. “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” – a film review by Gary Chew
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