Martin McDonaghs Wild Horse Nine arrives in November with a premise built for dread: two CIA agents, Santiago, Easter Island, 1973. The coup looms. The trust between them is already fracturing.
McDonagh has always found the violence inside small spaces. Wild Horse Nine is his largest canvas: a real historical atrocity, rendered in his dark comedy register. The Pinochet coup of September 11, 1973 sits at the edge of every frame.
The four films below map the terrain. Two are about what America did in Chile. One is about the institution that sent people there. One is about the man who will be asked to carry the whole thing.
