The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- 2011
- US/Sweden/UK/Germany
- 157 min
- 18
- Directed by: David Fincher
- Cast: Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Christopher Plummer, Stellan Skarsgård, Steven Berkoff, Robin Wright, Yorick van Wageningen, Joely Richardson
- UK release: 26 December 2011
An investigative journalist (Craig) forms an uneasy alliance with a computer hacker (Mara) in an attempt to solve a disappearance. Fincher amps up the dark poetry and Mara exudes a barely suppressed rage in every scene, elevating a populist novel into a compelling (if overlong) drama of bleakness and corruption.
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The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
13 Dec 2011
Mara and Fincher elevate a populist novel into a compelling drama of bleakness and corruption
David Fincher directs a version of Stieg Larsson’s Millenium trilogy – revenge thrillers don’t come with more high-powered credentials than that. While Steven Zaillian’s script sticks a little too closely to the labyrinthine plotting of the original…
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - The story so far
12 Dec 2011
Background on David Fincher adaptation on Stieg Larsson novels
The imminent release of David Fincher’s adaptation of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, the first in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy, is a bona-fide global pop culture event. Larsson’s books have sold over 50 million copies worldwide, and have spawned…
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