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Art in Bruges

Posted in Art, Film with tags , , , , , on December 19, 2025 by telescoper

For various reasons I find myself thinking about this little clip from the 2016 film In Bruges, starring Brendan Gleason and Colin Farrell. It’s set in the Groeningemuseum in the city of Bruges.

You can read an interesting post about the art in the film here.

You will see that the only painting that Ray (Colin Farrell) likes is a triptych called The Last Judgment, a version of which coincidentally featured in my post on Monday. The one I posted was by Hieronymous Bosch and is in Vienna; the one in Bruges is of doubtful attribution. It may be by Bosch, but experts think it is more likely to be by members of his workshop.

P.S. If you like black comedies then In Bruges is definitely for you! I wouldn’t say it was really a Christmas movie though…

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Facebook Folly

Posted in Biographical, Film with tags , , on February 7, 2022 by telescoper

Yesterday I found myself in the Facebook punishment block. My crime? To share a piece from the main RTÉ website about the film In Bruges.

I couldn’t understand the decision to ban me for sharing an innocuous article about a comedy film (though it’s admittedly a very dark comedy) especially when material that is so much worse is allowed. A few hours later, however, I was unbanned. I clicked on the ‘learn more’ link to be taken to a blank page. I assume the whole thing was just a mistake.

Of course this ban/unban episode is of no consequence. What worries me though is that the ban was imposed immediately, suggesting that somebody (or some AI bot) must be watching everything that gets posted by users; the same entity is presumably also checking the constant stream of bigoted bile, anti-vax misinformation, far-right propaganda, and other hateful lunacies one sees on Fashbook every day and deciding that it’s all perfectly acceptable.

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