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Hit Men on Holiday Get All Medieval

Not long after the start of “In Bruges,” an amusing trifle from the potty-mouthed playwright Martin McDonagh, two hit men pause before a painting, awe and puzzlement and perhaps something else shading their faces. The painting — a 15th-century Netherlandish diptych — shows a prisoner wearing a loincloth and a strangely calm expression given that he’s being flayed alive. A small gathering of men (an audience, you might say) stands around the condemned, whose left calf is being peeled like a blood orange. [...]

di Manohla Dargis, articolo completo (4409 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 8 Febbraio 2008