David Fincher’s Noir Thriller ‘The Killer’ Will get Rousing Standing Ovation in Venice

David Fincher’s neo-noir motion thriller The Killer introduced the home down Sunday night time at its Venice Movie Pageant premiere, drawing a seven-minute standing ovation and showers of bravos.

Fincher basked within the reception from the balcony of Venice’s Sala Grande cinema solo, since his starring forged, together with Michael Fassbender and Tilda Swinton, have been absent from the night time’s festivities because of the SAG-AFTRA strike. 

The Killer is written by Fincher’s Seven (1995) and Struggle Membership (1999) screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker and based mostly on a French graphic novel of the identical identify. It follows a cold-blooded murderer (Fassbender) who begins to have a psychological disaster after a fateful close to miss — in a world with no ethical compass.

Netflix teaser for the movie reads: “Solitary, chilly, methodical and unencumbered by scruples or regrets, a killer waits within the shadows, awaiting his subsequent goal. But, the longer he waits, the extra he thinks he’s shedding his thoughts, if not his cool.”

The tagline for The Killer, which emblazons the numerous movie posters hanging round Venice’s Lido this week — “Execution is the whole lot.” — may apply to Fincher’s ethic as a filmmaker as a lot as his newest film.

The Killer additionally reunites Fincher with cinematographer Erik Messerschmidt, who received an Oscar in 2021 for lensing the director’s Hollywood interval biopic Mank. Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Oscar winners for his or her work on Fincher’s The Social Community, wrote the brand new movie’s rating.

Apart from Roman Polanski’s The Palace, which has been virtually unanimously eviscerated by critics, almost each main movie to premiere in Venice this 12 months has generated an overwhelmingly enthusiastic response. Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Issues is the clear vital frontrunner on the pageant’s halfway level, however Bradley Cooper’s Maestro, Michael Mann’s Ferrari, Concord Korine’s tripped-out AGGRO DR1FT and Luc Besson’s Dogman have all earned big standing ovations within the Sala Grande.