At the Movies
Michael Wood: ‘Mank’, 21 January 2021
“... question is why the admired court jester would want to write a sardonic script about the king.)Mank is supposed to stay off the booze, which isn’t going to happen. He can’t do much gambling in these isolated quarters, but we see plenty of it in flashbacks, and indeed in what is the best of the film’s several set-pieces. The year is 1934 and ... ”