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An unusual poster for David Fincher's Gone Girl, which induces anxiety - and piques interest - while leaving out the title of the movie
The day that Nick returns to his affluent home to ask his wife for a divorce, she has disappeared, ostensibly kidnapped, and a high-profile search commences.
Gone Girl is written by Gillian Flynn (Widows (2018)), based on her own same-titled 2012 novel, and directed by great Coloradoan filmmaker David Fincher (Alien 3 (1992)).
The score by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (Waves (2019), both) is a standout; rumbling, trembling and vivid throughout, while Jeff Cronenweth's (Hitchcock (2012)) photography is expectedly slick and competent as well. The acting is good: Rosamund Pike (A Long Way Down (2014)) is frightening, SPOILER but also not a character one can sympathize with because she is successful with her ultra-manipulative psychopathy. Kim Dickens (Big Apple (2001, TV-series)) is excellent as a smart detective.
Gone Girl is a finely cut, smartly written thriller, which runs like a horror movie on marriage, portrayed deeply cynically and with a nihilist flavor; it is long and thereby also a bit depressing. It is chilling and hard to embrace, - especially for newlyweds, - and certainly not a film that inspires faith or confidence in your fellow human being.
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David Fincher: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) - Fincher's Nordic noir is technically astute but overlong and redundant
The Social Network (2010) - Fincher's a-hole biopic leaves me cold (and more anti-Facebook than ever)
The Game (1997) - Douglas shines in Fincher's cool mystery-thriller ride
Alien 3 (1992) or, The Monsters Go to Jail!
Watch a trailer for the film here
Cost: 61 mil. $
Box office: 369.3 mil. $
= Huge hit (returned 6.05 times its cost)
[Gone Girl premiered 26 September (New York Film Festival) and runs 149 minutes. Shooting took place in Missouri, Illinois, New York and California, including Los Angeles from September 2013 - ?. It opened #1 to a 37.5 mil. $ first weekend in North America, where it retained the position for another 2 weekends and then spent another 6 weeks in the top 5 (#2-#4-#4-#3-#5-#5), grossing 167.7 mil. $ (45.4 % of the total gross). The 2nd and 3rd biggest markets were the UK with 34.6 mil. $ (9.4 %) and Australia with 21.7 mil. $ (5.9 %). The film was nominated for 1 Oscar: Best Actress, lost to Julianne Moore in Still Alice. It was also nominated for 4 Golden Globes, 2 BAFTAs, a Grammy, won a National Board of Review award, and several other honors. IMDb users have rated the film in at #188 on the site's user-generated Top 250, sitting between Before Sunrise (1995) and Catch Me If You Can (2002). Fincher returned with Mindhunter (2017-19) and theatrically with Mank (2020, VOD). Affleck returned in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016); Pike in Return to Sender (2015). Gone Girl is certified fresh at 87 % with an 8.00/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]
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