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THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE
Director: Daniel Alfredson
Cast: Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace
Run Time: 129 minutes
Country: Sweden
Year: 2010
Language: Swedish with English subtitles
Rating: 18A (Sexually suggestive scenes)
In the second instalment of the Millennium trilogy, The Girl Who Played With Fire, Blomkvist is now on the tail of corrupt officials involved in a sex traffic ring, and has had no contact with tattooed computer hacker extraordinaire Lisbeth Salander since they risked their lives on a terrifying hunt for a serial killer a year earlier. But unknown to Blomkvist, Salander has had contact with him–or at least, with his computer, which she has cloned and is monitoring from the vast new apartment she has bought with her fraudulently obtained fortune.
Repeatedly abused as a child, Salander is a traumatized survivor of a deranged psychotherapist. A punk avenging angel with boxing skills, a photographic memory and pathologically focused on seeking out and punishing violent misogynists, Salander is drawn to the investigation on Blomkvist?s computer. So while Blomkvist and his fellow Millennium idealists research the sex industry according to the rules of good journalism, Salander–spurred on by the appalling case studies of teenage prostitution she finds on Blomkvist?s computer–takes matters into her own hands. She plots punishment for the traffickers, but before she can apply her own brand of justice, she is accused of three murders, all connected to the sex trafficking exposé about to be published in Millennium.
"The actress gets immeasurable help from the writing: Lisbeth's anger is matched by her intelligence and her physical prowess, which enables her to administer as well as absorb pain in megadoses. But none of it would register without Ms. Rapace's singular combination of eerie beauty and feral intensity. She's a movie star unlike any other." - Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal
"Though the thriller is in the hands of a different filmmaking team this time led by Swedish director Daniel Alfredson and screenwriter Jonas Frykberg, they've kept the searing intelligence and ruthless bent." - Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times
Reviews: www.metacritic.com/movie/the-girl-who-played-with-fire/critic-reviews
Official Site: www.playedwithfirefilm.com
