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Posted: Sat 22:37, 17 Aug 2013 Post subject: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo |
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Credits: Directed by Niels Arden Oplev and starring Lena Endre, Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Peter Haber and Sven-Bertil Taube.
Details: (MA15+), 153 mins, In Cinemas 25 March 2010, Sweden / Denmark / Germany,
Synopsis: The 16-year old girl Harriet Vanger disappeared without a trace, on September 29th 1966. Nearly forty years later a journalist by the name of Mikael Blomqvist gets an unusual assignment. He's contacted by the industrial leader Henrik Vanger, who wants him to write the history of the Vanger family. The family chronicle is just a cover for the real assignment: to find out about what really happened to Harriet. Mikael who recently been indicted and convicted on counts of slander, feels that he need a break from his job on the Millennium magazine take on the job. He gets help from the young and troubled computer hacker Lisbeth Salander. Together the odd couple starts to dig in the past of the Vanger family and meet a darker and bloodier history than the ever could have imagined.
Genres: Thriller
In 2009 The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo was the most successful film in Europe, despite not having a UK or Ireland release. The impetus was the success of Stieg Larsson's posthumous Millennium Trilogy - The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], The Girl Who Played With Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest - which have become a publishing phenomenon, shifting approximately 30 million copies worldwide with little sign of the sales abating.
It's almost ritualistic to note when a book is adapted into a movie that they're two distinct versions, but that's a somewhat disingenuous reply here because of the interest and even fanaticism that the source material has engendered. Many people want the three adaptations to be as faithful as possible to how they imagine the protagonists and their actions. The responsibility for the first film fell to Danish filmmaker Niels Arden Oplev, who had to his credit both a fast paced crime television series (The Eagle) and several films where children challenged the power of the adult world (World's Apart, We Shall Overcome); both ideas are at work here.
Even at two-and-a-half hours, Oplev's film can't encompass the sheer breadth of Larsson's skills as a social policy polymath. The text is a page turner that also works as an attack on the Swedish welfare state,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the corruption, both personal and political, that festers beneath the reserved national character, and endemic violence against women. It's Karl Marx rewriting Agatha Christie.
But if he can't muster the sheer weight of Larsson's text, Oplev can choose to overwhelm us. The trilogy's most distinctive, now virtually mythic, character is Lisbeth Salander, the bisexual, Gothic computer hacker whose childhood, as a ward of the state, has left damaged and defiant. Played by cold, implacable fury by Noomi Rapace - one look at her eyes and you forget about the spiked dog collar - Salander refuses to take a step backwards once engaged: jostled by a group of hooligans in the underground she fights one of them,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], while she is repeatedly attacked by her new state guardian, Bjurman (Peter Andersson), who believes he can dole out her money in exchange for exploiting her body. These exchanges are bloody and unexpected, rupturing the smooth progression of the plot.
Salander's battles are the reminder that the original Swedish title translated as Men Who Hate Women; misogyny has a pathologically violent edge here, which makes it all the more tricky that a relationship develops between Salander and the man she at first spies on, and then works with, disgraced investigative reporter Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist). Thankfully Nyqvist plays the part with shaggy simplicity, even a certain resignation, and that neatly offsets Rapace's trip-wire demeanour.
When Blomkvist first accepts a job from ageing industrialist Henrik Vanger (Sven-Bertil Taube) to look into the mysterious disappearance of his niece from the family's island retreat 40 years prior, he is marking time, almost defeated. But the case reinvigorates him, also attracting Salander. Oplev manipulates the mystery with deft care,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], following the characters through the resources of four decades prior; the time lapsed means Salander's computer prowess is mostly superfluous, drawing her closer to Blomkvist since they must cooperate in deduction and elimination.
Yet it's not a particularly involved situation - it's apparent that the villain is a member of the dysfunctional Vanger clan (Nazis and drunks are a specialty) and they circle the investigation since they all live in close vicinity. Without the sheer depth of the broader themes, the story's spine is linear. The individual evil here is malignant, steady, enduring, because it must reflect the broader ideas the book engages, but that doesn't make for a flourish in the reveal, or genuine terror. Oplev doesn't have the operatically twisted worldview to work with that Thomas Harris gifted Jonathan Demme with for The Silence of the Lambs.
But the two leads are expertly sketched, and then played by the actors, and there is a lovely transposition of genre responsibilities when it at one stage Salander must race to rescue the imperiled Blomkvist. This is a capable, engaging thriller,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], which ties up one mystery even as it asks another about the past of Lisbeth Salander. The screen has a new avenging angel.
A quirky, gently comedic portrait of a gifted teenager rebelling against life's limits in a frozen Icelandic coastal village. 17-year-old Noi lives with his grandmother in a remote fjord in the north of Iceland. When Noi meets Íris, a girl who has returned from the city to work at the local petrol station,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], they hatch a plan to run off to Hawaii together. A hit on the international film circuit. Directed by Dagur Kári and stars Tómas Lemarquis, Thröstur Leó Gunnarsson and Elín Hansdóttir. (From Iceland, in Icelandic) (Drama) (2003) (Rpt) M (L,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],A)
Pavel Josek, a distinguished psychiatrist, is about to receive an award for his life's work. His wife and daughter are thrilled,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and his son-in-law Ludek leads a documentary crew following him in the lead-up to the ceremony. However, Ludek's research uncovers Pavel's hidden past as a collaborator with the secret police. Nominated for nine Czech Lions in 2010, and winner of three. Directed by Jan Hrebejk and stars Lenka Vlasáková, Milan Mikulcík and Martin Huba. (From the Czech Republic, in Czech) (Drama) (2010) MA (L)
In an attempt to spice up an ordinary Friday night, three wealthy young men naively cross to 'the wrong side of the tracks' in Mexico City to have some fun. What they discover is a very different and sometimes dangerous reality hidden from their sheltered lives, but they also make friendships with people they would not usually have had any contact with. Directed by Eva López Sánchez and stars Sebastián Hiriart,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Juan Pablo Campa and Manuel Garcia-Rulfo. (From Mexico, in Spanish) (Drama) (2009) (Rpt) MA (L)
A compelling and poignant tale of friendship between two prostitutes struggling to survive life on the streets of Madrid. Caye is a young woman whose family is unaware of her profession. She meets her striking Dominican neighbour Zulema, an illegal alien who's been badly beaten up. They strike up a close friendship unbeknownst to Caye's xenophobic co-workers. Winner of the 2006 Goya Award for Best Actress (Candela Pena). Directed by Fernando León de Aranoa and also stars Micaela Nevárez and Mariana Cordero. (From Spain, in Spanish) (Drama) (2005) (Rpt) MA (S)
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