Wild Horse Nine

special event screening. From Academy Award and six-time BAFTA winning writer-director Martin McDonagh (The Banshees of Inisherin, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) comes WILD HORSE NINE, a blistering dark comedy about aging, guilt, friendship and the impossible attempt to negotiate with one’s own past. Spearheaded by powerhouses, Academy Award nominee John Malkovich and Academy Award winner Sam Rockwell, in two phenomenal, Oscar-worthy performances. Shortly before the 1973 Chilean coup, CIA agents Chris (Malkovich) and Lee (Rockwell) are dispatched from Santiago to Easter Island by their bureau chief, MJ (Golden Globe winner Steve Buscemi). Amongst the Island's iconic statues, the longtime partners wrestle with their dark pasts and present conspiracies and Chris begins to question whether he and Lee were ever friends, and whether there is an ulterior motive behind the trip. As Chris's newfound bond with a pair of rebellious students (Mariana di Girolamo and Ailín Salas) threatens to send everyone’s trip to this remote paradise sideways, Lee must grapple with the secret mission he has been tasked to complete. An unexpectedly moving reckoning of friendship, morality, and lives spent doing terrible things, WILD HORSE NINE is an absurdly poetic, deeply melancholy, and ultimately devastating exploration of what it means to be human, beautifully showcasing how we are all just living one day at a time until time runs out. With a wickedly entertaining and cynical yet soulful performance from Malkovich, with many calling it his finest performance of the 21st century.

Listed by Palace Cinemas Brisbane