The Mark of Kane
Reader's Digest India|January 2021
A biopic of Herman Mankiewicz, the man who wrote Citizen Kane, Mank is a labour of love
Shougat Dasgupta
The Mark of Kane

WAS CITIZEN KANE the greatest Hollywood movie ever made? It was a box-office dud but fetishized by French filmmakers and critics of the nouvelle vague. David Fincher’s Mank, available on Netflix, is a worshipful biopic of Herman Mankiewicz, who wrote the screenplay for Kane, along with Orson Welles, the film’s director, producer, star and lifeforce.

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