THE GIRL WITH THE

DRAGON TATTOO

Based on the International Best-seller

SHOWTIMES

 

Stieg Larsson was a well-known Swedish journalist and magazine editor with a love for mystery novels. In his spare time, he began to write his own series of mysteries. Larsson finished three books before he died tragically of a heart attack at age 50, and never lived to see his amazingly entertaining books become an international phenomenon with over 12 million copies sold. Now, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo arrives on the big screen in a thrilling new movie that skillfully captures Larsson's compelling tale of murder and corruption amongst one of Sweden's most powerful families. Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist is surprised to receive an invitation from legendary industrialist Henrik Vanger, who wants him to investigate the mysterious disappearance many years earlier of his beloved niece Harriet. Mikael joins forces with the brilliant, if highly unorthodox, private investigator Lisbeth Salander. The two of them soon begin to uncover a tangled web of dysfunction, fanaticism, and misogyny that may have led to the murders of numerous women. The crusading Blomqvist is clearly a surrogate for Larsson but his supreme creation is undoubtedly Lisbeth Salander, the relentless, young, tattooed, diminutive, violent, antisocial, bisexual detective with a very personal sense of morality and a highly troubled past. Director Niels Arden Oplev makes a lot of good decisions in translating book to film but none better than casting the fascinating Noomi Rapace as Larsson's unforgettable heroine. —Dylan Skolnick

Sweden, 2008, 152 min., color, Swedish with English Subtitles

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