Zodiac: The Director's Cut

The film is screened for the first time in Greece in the Director's Cut digitally restored print.

Director: David Fincher
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo
Runtime: 162'
Year of Production: 2007
Language: English
Subtitles: Greek

Fincher's best films seem to derive from a study on the same theme: the prevalence of Evil in an unresponsive modern world that rests on the illusion that it knows everything. Both «Fight Club» and «Seven» use as their starting point the fact that, in this world, darkness has long since spread. In «Zodiac», Fincher returns to the origins of darkness for an entire society betrayed by its reliance on the power of information. Newspaper pages, television sets spread insanity and become unwittingly accomplices of an obscure serial killer who, like John Doe of «Seven», seeks too his share of publicity. Once he secures it, the terrifying mythology he builds around himself becomes a stream that overwhelms everything. But if «Seven» was a film about the reception of Evil, in «Zodiac» the drama lies in the inability of people to do anything to prevent it. After quickly covering the work of the killer still at large, the film becomes obsessed with the collateral damage of his actions: the city of San Francisco surrendering to fear. A journalist driven to self-destruction. A police officer who realizes the futility of his crusade to find the killer. And a sketch artist who becomes an unusual detective in the case, but sacrifices his family's happiness in the process. With his slow-moving masterpiece, Fincher set himself at a career high point that will be hard to surpass. The Athens Open Air Film Festival is screening «Zodiac» for the first time in Greece in its complete form, exactly as the director had it in mind initially, with six extra minutes from the cut that was shown in cinemas worldwide and with a brand new digital copy edited by Fincher himself. Loukas Katsikas