Gary Oldman as Herman Mankiewicz in Mank. Directed by David Fincher ( Gone Girl, The Social Network) from a screenplay written by his father Jack Fincher, it’s fast, talky, and shot in black and white with old-timey flourishes, and its plot is simple enough to follow even though the film is not very interested in explaining itself. On the one hand, the movie is plenty watchable even without much knowledge of the real-life characters and historical story it’s telling Mank is about a former journalist and playwright who struck gold in Hollywood - like many writers of his era - only to be tossed out by the industry and go on to strike back the best way he can. Mankiewicz - “Mank” is his nickname - is explaining his elliptical script, which in 1941 would be released as Citizen Kane, the seminal film on which he officially shares the screenwriting credit with Citizen Kane director, producer, and star Orson Welles.Īnd yet his cinnamon roll analogy is a useful way to describe Mank, which itself is a bit of a puzzle. David Fincher’s new movie Mank is a broadside against Hollywood self-congratulation
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