The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009 film) The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009 film) The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (, literally "Men who hate women") is a 2009 Swedish drama thriller film based on the novel of the same name by Swedish author/journalist Stieg Larsson. It is the first book in the trilogy known as the "Millennium" series, published in Sweden in 2005. By August 2009, it had been sold to 25 countries outside Scandinavia and had been seen by more than 6 million people in the countries where it was already released. Directed by Niels Arden Oplev, the film stars Michael Nyqvist and Noomi
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo on "The New York Times" Best Seller list. Alex Berenson wrote in "The New York Times", "The novel offers a thoroughly ugly view of human nature"; while it "opens with an intriguing mystery" and the "middle section of "Girl" is a treat, the rest of the novel doesn't quite measure up. The book's original Swedish title was "Men Who Hate Women", a label that just about captures the subtlety of the novel's sexual politics." The "Los Angeles Times" said "the book takes off, in the fourth chapter: From there, it becomes classic parlor crime fiction with many modern twists...The writing