Chocful of Surprises Bruges Comes in for a Bit of a Ribbing in the Black Comedy of the Same Name, but, Finds Alan Taylor, the City has Unexpected Delights Way Beyond the Caricature
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THE movie In Bruges, as you might guess from its no-flannel title, is set in the Belgian city of the same name. It stars two Irishmen, Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, and an Englishman, Ralph Fiennes. Ray and Ken, the characters played by the Irish pair, are hitmen. When Harry, Fiennes's character, an old-fashioned gangster in the mould of the Kray twins, shouts, Ray and Ken jump, which is why, having botched the killing of a priest, they find themselves . . . in Bruges.
Ken, a man with a cultural hinterland, is dead chuffed.See the full content of this document
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Chocful of Surprises Bruges Comes in for a Bit of a Ribbing in the Black Comedy of the Same Name, but, Finds Alan Taylor, the City has Unexpected Delights Way Beyond the Caricature
Ray, who is a couple of decades younger, and whose interests tend to chime with those of readers of Loaded and the like on wilder stag weekends, takes one look at Bruges and wants out, now, immediately, pronto.
"I grew up in Dublin, and I love Dublin, " he tells Ken."If I'd grown up on a farm and was retarded, ...See the full content of this document
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