MANK
OUT NOW (NETFLIX)
CERT M / 132 MINS
DIRECTOR David Fincher
CAST Gary Oldman, Amanda Seyfried, Lily Collins, Charles Dance, Tom Burke
PLOT A pariah in Hollywood, alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. ‘Mank’ Mankiewicz (Oldman) takes on a job writing ‘American’, a screenplay for boy wonder Orson Welles. The script is a takedown of newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst (Dance) that eventually becomes Citizen Kane, arguably the greatest film ever made.
, DAVID FINCHER’S 11th feature film, ends on the words “the magic of the movies”. Don’t be fooled. True to form, Fincher’s first film since 2014’s isn’t a gooey-eyed Valentine to the dream factory. Instead it’s a clear-eyed, warts’n’all love letter to Hollywood, alive to both the glamour and messy realities of the film industry and the act of creation itself — all wrapped in
