Sun 4 Nov 2018: "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri - ChOC Film of the Month
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Cert. 15 / 1hr 55mins.
Furious at a lack of progress in the police investigation into the murder of her teenage daughter seven months earlier, single mother Mildred Hayes (Frances McDormand) rents three disused billboards outside her small Missouri hometown and uses them to display a highly provocative message. This upsets many of the townspeople, especially as the man singled out for heel-dragging, Chief of Police William Willoughby (Woody Harrelson), is known to be dying from pancreatic cancer. Willoughby's second-in-command, violent and bigoted mummy's boy Jason Dixon (Sam Rockwell), takes the accusation on the billboards almost as a personal insult, and his determination to clear his superior's name puts him on a collision course with an increasingly reckless Hayes.
Written and directed by Martin McDonagh (In Bruges), Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is a controversial, unflinching and deeply touching film. But it also operates as a blistering satire of small-town America and contains some genuinely hilarious dialogue. The movie is beautifully photographed and lovingly made and features a superb performance from Harrelson and career-defining ones from Oscar winners McDormand and Rockwell.
A complete departure from recent ChOC offerings, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is a devastating portrait of a woman's grief and of the consequences when that grief mutates unstoppably into anger and retribution.
Please note: this film contains very strong language throughout.
Memorial Hall, Charlbury at 7pm
Doors and licensed bar from 6.15pm
Admission: £5