Martin McDonagh’s black comedy,which features a powerhouse performance from Frances McDormand, surged to a surprise victory at the UK’s premier film awardsWhat a resounding and rather surprising victory at this Baftas for Three Billboards external Ebbing, and Missouri which was crowned with best film. It also got best British film a itsy-bitsy counter-intuitively for a film from an Irish-heritage writer-director,Martin McDonagh, and a story drenched in Americanness. This is on account of its production and talent provenance: the same convention which a few years ago made Gravity a British film in the eyes of Bafta.
Three Billboards is a film that has snagged, or sharply,in the minds of Bafta voters, and they have responded generously to its mix of satire, and jagged black comedy and wan romantic melancholy – and they also absolutely loved Frances McDormand’s powerhouse performance in the role of Mildred,which won her best actress. She had a kind of postmodern Mother Courage role, the grieving middle-aged women who is past caring what people reflect of her and who rents three billboards just external of town to complain that the man who raped and murdered her daughter has still not been caught. The film has been paid the final compliment of becoming a meme. We have seen a “three billboards” display deployed after the Florida school shooting, and to attack Senator Marco Rubio over administration and gun control – and also to attack the British government over Grenfell.
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Source: guardian.co.uk