Wednesday, November 25, 6 p.m. in Paris, 9 a.m. in Los Angeles.
On the phone, David Fincher has a neutral voice, neither mushy, nor cheerful.
Difficult to say if it is morning.
The media around the world have just announced the death of Diego Maradona, perhaps the greatest footballer in history and model of self-destruction.
Precisely, the scuttling, the anguish, the paranoia, the characters of Fincher know a ray of it.
Sigourney Weaver in
Alien 3
, Brad Pitt in
Seven
, Edward Norton in
Fight Club
, Jodie Foster in
Panic Room
or Jake Gyllenhaal in
Zodiac
, many of them go through hell in Fincher's imaginary world.
When he is informed of the death of Maradona, the American filmmaker has this single comment:
"Drugs do not give a gift."
No less was expected of him, clinical director, brilliant formalist, peerless manipulator, surveyor of Evil and born pessimist.
Sentimentalism is not the kind of house.
“It's a project that goes back a long way, the screenplay has been on the shelf for a long time.
I wanted to pay homage to my father ”
David Fincher
However,
Mank
, his new feature film,
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