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Tuesday, 27 February 2007 |
| Director: Tommy Lee Jones 121 mins USA 2005 |
| Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Barry Pepper,Dwight Yoakam, Melissa Yeo |
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Jones won the Best Actor Award at Cannes 2005 for his portrayal of a
Texas
ranch foreman wracked with grief and seeking revenge after his hired hand and friend, an illegal immigrant, is killed by a border patrolman. He kidnaps the murderer and forces him at gunpoint to exhume the body and make the long journey across the border on horseback with the rotting corpse to bury the man in his native Mexican village.
A hard hitting and entertaining modern Western about one man's moral dilemma that is also a searing comment on the inequality and prejudice experienced by Mexicans at the hands of their more affluent neighbours.
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| "A big-hearted, grand and noble study of broken men and broken dreams, ‘Three Burials’ is cruel and comic, exquisitely photographed by Chris Menges and pleasingly old-fashioned in its commitment to elemental, vital storytelling. Tommy Lee Jones has delivered a great American tale." Dave Calhoun, Time Out |
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