The stately melancholic nature of the pieces is well captured by the duo; but where they bring their own stamp is in the way they draw what is essentially indoor music evoking gowned ladies and bewigged gents moving in graceful arcs out into the open, lending it an air of dust and yearning...
Daily Archives: 08/11/2026
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Martin McDonagh’s latest stroll around his favourite theme of hilariously toxic masculine friendships finds him treading on a few real-life thorns of twentieth-century political history. Sam Rockwell and John Malkovich team up as a pair of ageing CIA agents sent to Coventry (well, Easter Island), where they can rifle through the spilled guts of their careers while the real action carries on without them.