Wild Horse Nine: Martin McDonagh’s odd-couple CIA drama is really a love story

By Andrew Dix, Senior Lecturer in American Literature and Film, Loughborough University

“Is this a joke?” asks a young Chilean woman early in Martin McDonagh’s new film, Wild Horse Nine. She is trying to grasp something said to her by another character; just as easily, however, she could be wondering exactly what kind of film she is in. For Wild Horse Nine itself is tonally unstable, mixing farcical events with historical drama and comic wordplay with an affecting portrait of male friendship.

This mixing of moods and blending of genres brings the film into alignment with McDonagh’s…

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