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Film Review: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Fri, Jan 20 2012 09:01 CET

byAndré Crous, The Prague Post

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Film Review: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

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Film Review: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

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At their first meeting, the septuagenarian Henrik Vanger, head of the powerful Vanger Industries, warns an investigative journalist about "thieves, misers, bullies … the most detestable collection of people you will ever meet." These people, we learn, are his relatives, and in the cold winter air of rural Sweden, the fog that permanently hangs over the quiet desolation is the uncertainty about the intentions of a handful of people on a tiny island: the Vanger family.

The journalist, Mikael Blomkvist, has come to investigate the disappearance of a teenage girl, Harriet, which dates back to the summer of 1966. On that day, sumptuously recreated by master filmmaker David Fincher (Fight Club, The Social Network) and his cinematographer in shades of gold, Harriet seemed to be on edge, and by nightfall she had vanished like a dream.

Blomkvist seems to be the perfect man for the job: He is a keen detective and is not scared of naming and shaming guilty parties, no matter how influential they are. He also happens to need some time alone, and the excursion to the remote town of Hedestad seems to be the perfect opportunity for him to regroup after a devastating legal defeat.

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