The girl in Andre Techine’s “Girl on the Train” is Jeanne, who has never fully engaged in the society she occupies. She roller blades through French suburbs with her iPod blocking out other sounds, as the world glides past unobserved. Was it the job interview with the lawyer Samuel Bleistein that put Jews into her…
The Girl on the Train – La fille du RER (2010)
Jeanne is a young woman, striking but otherwise without qualities. Her mother tries to get her a job in the office of a lawyer, Bleistein, her lover years ago. Jeanne fails the interview but falls into a relationship with Franck, a wrestler whose dreams and claims of being in a legitimate business partnership Jeanne is…
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest Movie Trailer (2010)
Film Review for The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) makes a transfixing heroine precisely because she has nothing but scorn for such a role. Embodied here for the third time by Noomi Rapace, she’s battered, angry and hostile, even toward those who would be her friends. Some of the suspense…
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (2010)
The final installment of the “Millenium Trilogy”: Lisbeth Salander is fighting for her life in more ways than one. In intensive care and charged with three murders, she will not only have to prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce those corrupt government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life. Once upon a time,…
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Movie Trailer (2010)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Storyline In December 2002, Mikael Blomkvist, publisher of Millennium magazine, loses a libel case involving allegations he published about billionaire financier Hans-Erik Wennerström. He is sentenced to three months in prison and a hefty fine. Lisbeth Salander, a brilliant but damaged surveillance agent and hacker, is hired by Henrik…
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2010)
Adapted from the first part of Stieg Larsson’s “Millenium Series” involving the publisher of a magazine hired by the CEO of a company to solve the mysterious disappearance of his 16-year-old niece forty years earlier with the help of a young computer hacker who had been suffering from sexual abuse by her guardian. (Note: This…