Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2009)

"It's one of the most engaging foreign films to come along since Tell No One in 2008.  Mike Scott, New Orleans Times-Picayune
"Rapace is a magnetic presence in a far-ranging mystery requiring such a solid character to orbit around.  Steve Persall, St. Petersburg Times
"A mind-bending and mesmerizing thriller that takes its time unlocking one mystery only to uncover another, all to chilling and immensely satisfying effect.  Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times

Editor's Note A discredited journalist and a mysterious computer hacker discover that even the wealthiest families have skeletons in their closets while working to solve the mystery of a 40-year-old murder. Inspired by late author Stieg Larsson's successful trilogy of books, THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO gets under way as Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander are briefed in the disappearance of Harriet Vanger, whose uncle suspects she may have been killed by a member of their own family. The deeper Mikael and Lisbeth dig for the truth, however, the greater the risk of being buried alive by members of the family who will go to great lengths to keep their secrets tightly sealed.

	Lena Endre
	Sven-Bertil Taube
	Noomi Rapace
	Peter Andersson
	Peter Haber
	Marika Lagercrantz
	Michael Nyqvist
	Ingvar Hirdwall
	Margareta Stone - Co-Star
	Jan Mybrand - Co-Star
	Reuben Sallmander - Co-Star
	Jacob Ericksson - Co-Star
	Mikael Rahm - Co-Star
	Kalled Mustonen - Co-Star
	David Dencik - Co-Star
	Annika Hallin - Co-Star
	Michalis Koutsogiannakis - Co-Star
	Sofia Ledarp - Co-Star
	Gyorgi Staykov - Co-Star
	Yasmine Garbi - Co-Star
	Pale Olofsson - Co-Star
	Barbro Enberg - Co-Star
	Thomas Kohler - Co-Star
	Fredrik Ohlsson - Co-Star
	Nina Noren - Co-Star
	Emil Almen - Co-Star
	Louise Ryme - Co-Star
	Willie Andreason - Co-Star
	Lennart R. Svensson - Co-Star
	Carl Oscar Tornros - Co-Star
	Henrik Knutsson - Co-Star
	Ola Wallinder - Co-Star
	Alexandra Pascalidou - Co-Star
	Siewert Oholm - Co-Star
	Theilla Bladh - Co-Star
	Laura Lind - Co-Star
	Isabella Isacson - Co-Star
	Richard Franc - Co-Star
	Magnus Stenius - Co-Star
	Gosta Bredefeldt - Co-Star
	Christian Fiedler - Co-Star
	Stefan Sauk - Co-Star
	Ewa Froling - Co-Star
	Bjorn Granath - Co-Star
	Gunnel Lindblom - Co-Star
	Per Oscarsson - Co-Star
	Jens Fischer - Additional DOP
	Jacob Groth - Composer
	Eric Kress - Director of Photography
	Anders Horling - Sound
	Nicolaj Arcel - Screenwriter
	Rasmus Heisterberg - Screenwriter
	Stieg Larsson - Source Writer
	Jenny Fred - Makeup
	Tobias Astrom - Production Manager/UPM
	Daniel Chilla - Assistant Director
	Niels Arden Oplev - Director

Entertainment Weekly
"[T]his action/art-house hybrid miraculously manages to be faithful to Larsson's novel without seeming slavish." -- Grade: A- 07/09/2010

Empire
5 stars out of 5 -- "Noomi Rapace transforms 23-year-old, tattooed computer hacker Lisbeth Salander into a far more complex, formidable character than Larsson's elfin fantasy figure." 08/01/2010

Chicago Sun-Times 10 of 10
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a compelling thriller to begin with, but it adds the rare quality of having a heroine more fascinating than the story. She's a 24-year-old goth girl named Lisbeth Salander, with body piercings and tattoos: thin, small, fierce, damaged, a genius computer hacker. She smokes to quiet her racing heart...Lisbeth is as compelling as any movie character in recent memory. Played by Noomi Rapace with an unwavering intensity, she finds her own emotional needs nurtured by the nature of the case she investigates, the disappearance of a young girl 40 years earlier. As this case is revealed as part of a long-hidden pattern of bizarre violence against women, memories of her own abused past return with a vengeance...Rapace makes the character compulsively interesting. She plays against a passive fortysomething hero, Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist), an investigative journalist who has six months of freedom before beginning a prison sentence for libel against a Swedish tycoon. Mikael, resourceful and intelligent, is hired by an elderly billionaire named Henrik Vanger (Sven-Bertil Taube), who inhabits a gloomy mansion on a remote island and broods about the loss of his beloved niece Harriet. She vanished one day when the island was cut off from the mainland. Her body was never found. Because the access bridge was blocked, the killer must have been a member of Vanger's large and greedy family, which he hates. Three brothers were Nazi sympathizers during the war...The novel, one of a trilogy which Stieg Larsson completed before his untimely death at 44 in 2004, was an international best-seller. It is destined to be remade by Hollywood. That remake may turn out to be a good film, but if I were you I'd be sure to watch this version. The Hollywood version will almost certainly tone down the sexual violence. I can't think of an American actress who could play Lisbeth. Kristen Stewart, who I respect, has been mentioned. Dakota Fanning. I dunno. A younger Jodie Foster, maybe. Someone able to play hard as nails and emotionally unavailable. Make her a Swede, and simply cast Noomi Rapace...This is not a deep psychological study. But it's a sober, grown-up film. It has action, but not the hyperkinetic activity that passes for action in too many American movies. It has sex, but not eroticism. Its male lead is brave and capable, but not macho. Its female lead is sexy in the abstract, perhaps, but not seductive or alluring. This is a movie about characters who have more important things to do than be characters in an action thriller. - Roger Ebert