Imagine that in The Silence of the Lambs, crime-solving collaborators Hannibal and Clarice meet in a chilly bungalow on an island near Stockholm instead a hellhole-ish Baltimore holding pen for the criminally insane.
Except he is a benign middle-aged journalist hired by an elderly mogul to investigate the decades-old disappearance of a niece, and she is a cyber-hacker punk savant with aggressive antisocial tendencies and a vigilante’s sense of justice. That sums up The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, the Swedish film based on the first book of the late Stieg Larsson’s wildly popular trilogy, which has sold 27 million copies in more than 40 countries. Read more….
