Tonight on TV: Before Dahmer, the movie redefined the serial killer

Currently, the mini-series Dahmer: Monster – The Story of Jeffrey Dahmer, which revisits the crimes committed by the killer of the same name between 1978 and 1991, is causing a sensation on Netflix. If it’s obviously too dark and uncomfortable, the brutality is implied or filmed off-camera, while the details come through the dialogue.

The bias isn’t too far from David Fincher’s bias for Seven. Released in theaters on January 31, 1996, this film disrupts and redefines the codes of the thriller. Masterfully written by Andrew Kevin Walker (BAFTA nominee for Best Original Screenplay), it tells the story of Detective David Mills, a detective who joins forces with his almost retired colleague William Somerset to track down a serial killer who uses the Seven Deadly Sins. as a motive for his murder.

After being very disappointed on the set of Alien 3, David Fincher agrees to direct sevenFascinated by the story, which he describes more as “A meditation on evilthan a simple procedural detective film. His virtuoso, extremely dark and suffocating staging suggests violence instead of showing it. The first thing we remember from a feature film is its ending. Hosea, cruel, terribly pessimistic. It took all the stamina. To sustain the filmmaker and actors.

With his disillusioned view of the modern world, seven A landmark in the history of the genre, it was a huge success at the box office, grossing $327 million worldwide and 4.9 million releases in France. crowned with an average viewer rating of 4.5 out of 5, seven is Internet users’ favorite feature film AlloCiné (ex aequo Fight Club) among David Fincher’s filmography.

seven David Fincher with Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow…

from the age of 12

Tonight on TF1 Séries Films at 9pm.