Mank Moview Review: Skating on thin ice

Updated On: 19 December, 2020 07:34 AM IST | Mumbai | Johnson Thomas

'Mank' may not rank as amongst the best of Fincher's oeuvre but it certainly is competently done and the black-and-white cinematography adds weight to the idea that this could be reckoned as an homage to Welles' Citizen Kane!

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Mank
U/A: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Cast: Gary Oldman, Amanda Seyfried, Lily Collins, Charles Dance, Sam Troughton
Director: David Fincher
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Mank basically bio-tomes scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz' attempts to finish the screenplay of the now all-time favorite, greatest film ever made, Citizen Kane (1941). So, here we are looking in at 1930's Hollywood where a washed-up 40 year old gets a second act when 24 year old prodigy Orson Welles, the Director, assigns him that task. People who worked in that era of Hollywood garner mentions while the nitty-gritties and snippets that encapsulate Citizen Kane's history are spotlighted here.

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