watched: in bruges.  a very curious thing happens a third of the way into this film: ralph fiennes comes onscreen, and you realise that you’ve never seen ralph fiennes act before.  you thought you had, you thought there was some emoting going on in the english patient or the constant gardner, but no, as you watch him leer his way across the screen you realise that up until this point he has simply been standing still and saying words.  now he is acting, and everything else he’s done pales in comparison.