Set in the golden age of 1930s Hollywood, Mank tells the story of how the screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz races to finish the screenplay of Orson Welles' Citizen Kane.
Jack Fincher (1930 - 2003) was a screenwriter and journalist for various magazines and periodicals, notably serving as San Francisco Bureau Chief of Life magazine. He was the father of film director David Fincher.
a heartfelt, irresistibly watchable film
*The Guardian*
“Mank” is a lusciously evocative, verbally sharp-angled movie
that’s never less than engrossing.
*Variety*
a clear-eyed, warts ’n’ all love letter to Hollywood, alive to both
the glamour and messy realities of the film industry and the act of
creation itself — all wrapped in some of the most gorgeous
filmmaking craft imaginable ... Mank delivers the “magic of the
movies” in its own unique way.
*Empire*
It’s no small matter that the author of Mank is Jack Fincher, the
director’s father, who died in 2003. He gets sole credit, a gesture
that ratifies the film’s argument that screenwriting isn’t only
about what’s on the page: at its finest, it facilitates conditions
in which everyone can sparkle. I don’t know whether the script
stipulated the box of Gold Dust washing powder that sits beside the
sink in Mank’s villa, but there it is, bold as brass, hinting at
the alchemy necessary to create a Citizen Kane. Or, for that
matter, a Mank.
*New Statesman*
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