Pepper, I found the Swedish adaptation of “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" well done. The main character, Lisbeth Salander, is so intense that I worried that the actress portraying her would be unconvincing. But Noomi Rapace did a fine job.
I liked the cinematography... it gave the film a beautiful, somber tone …the ice and snow of Sweden in winter… a stark color palette that captured the story's cold, emotional tone.
I found it to be a very visual film --- the main characters’ detective work involved old police reports, newspaper clippings, family photos, corporate expense receipts. Lots of information is conveyed via images …
I loved the elegance of Blomkvist’s scanning old negatives: grainy shots of Harriet, in the crowd at a parade,… when blown up and placed in quick sequence, they suddenly became a mini-movie.
Both the editing and the music rattle along at quite a clip, and even patches of dogged research whip by quickly. It’s hard to believe that I just sat through 2-and-a-half-hour film.
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