Martin McDonagh: “Wild Horse Nine is not a buddy movie, that would be too simplistic!”

After the two hitmen sending us Good Kisses from Bruges and the two angry Irish friends of the Banshees from Inisherin, Martin McDonagh films two CIA agents on the loose on Easter Island. Encounter.

Martin McDonagh has a thing with numbers. Just look at the titles of his films: Six Shooterthe inaugural short film, won an Oscar in 2006, which convinced the man who was already a renowned playwright in his native United Kingdom to embark on a career as a filmmaker. Will follow, in particular, 7 Psychopaths, 3 Billboards: The Vengeance Panels and, today, Wild Horse Ninea scathing comedy about two CIA agents who foment the 1973 coup d’état in Santiago de Chile and go for a few days on Easter Island, while the older one knows he is dying. Six, 7, 3, 9… You don’t need to be good at math to know that McDonagh’s real lucky number is 2. Two like Brendan Gleeson + Colin Farrell in his cult gangster film Good Kisses from Brugesor in the tragicomic Irish pastoral The Banshees of Inisherin. Two like John Malkovich + Sam Rockwell, the crazy duo of Wild Horse Ninewho exchange their lines like Nadal and Federer balls, while the audience holds their breath and savors the spectacle. The organizer of this summit match tells us behind the scenes.

FIRST: Wild Horse Nine is your third film – out of only five – to feature a male duo. Do you see it as a genre? A shape? A variation on the buddy movie?
MARTIN MCDONAGH: Buddy movie, no, it’s a bit too reductive a term. It refers to a very codified Hollywood genre, and I hope that what I do is deeper than that. What interests me is to question male friendship. To show that it is precisely something richer, more touching, more disturbing, than what Hollywood generally tells us about it. There is a lot of love in the friendships that I portray. I believe that this is a subject that can reveal a lot to us if we explore it with sensitivity…..