This week, Telluride overlaps Venice, and then Venice will overlap TIFF, as fall festival madness continues. However, truly special films will rise above the pack, and Martin McDonagh’s “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” looks like it’s going to turn some heads.
Featuring great performances from Frances McDormand and Sam Rockwell (read our review), with Woody Harrelson also slotted in a starring role, the film follows a determined mother who wants to solve the murder of her daughter – a case the cops can’t seem to crack. Here’s the official synopsis:
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is a darkly comic drama from Academy Award winner Martin McDonagh. After months have passed without a culprit in her daughter’s murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at William Willoughby, the town’s revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Dixon, an immature mother’s boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing’s law enforcement is only exacerbated.
In this clip from the movie, McDormand’s Mildred Hayes makes her point with a couple of kicks to the crotch.
“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” screens next at TIFF, and opens on November 10th.