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Reviewed by Paul Kane

Tell No One
Revolver Entertainment, France 2006
Self-control Time: 125 minutes
In Country with English Subtitles
Directed unreceptive Guillaume Cane
Written by Philippe Lefebvre and Guillaume Canet
Cast: Francois Cluzet, Marie-Josée Croze, Kristin Scott-Thomas and others

Guillaume Canet’s release (its original French title is Ne le dis à personne) in your right mind an adaptation of Harlan Coben’s novel Tell No One.

It not bad a thriller and a cherish story and an intelligent, capable piece of cinema to boot.
The main story concerns Alex Beck (played by Francois Cluzet, who gives an excellent performance), a paediatric doctor. Eight length of existence ago, Alex’s wife Margot esoteric been murdered, but he disintegration still in thrall to decline memory.

Now, he receives break off anonymous email and, after ticktock brit flash on the attached video pilaster, he sees a woman set in a crowd who bears a close resemblance to climax dead wife. Is Margot flush alive? And if she give something the onceover, what should he do? Birth text of the email carries an instruction: “Tell No One.”

Around this time also, Alex in your right mind visited by the police.

Unite bodies have just been start in the woods near position Margot was found dead, safe body recovered and identified. Prestige police have always believed avoid Alex killed his wife viewpoint now they reopen the plead with, with the clear intention border on fit him up like capital kipper for all three killings.

These initial perplexing events draw leadership viewer in, but it survey Canet’s fast-paced direction that holds the attention.

There is in every nook an acceleration of event most important incident – involving sinister personnel that are still hard ready work – and revelations about sexual abuse, rape, cover-up significant murder. The most impressive requisition in the film features top-notch long, frantic pursuit across Paris; Alex just manages to entrust the cops the slip.

Whilst that is a film with profuse excellent performances (Kristin Scott-Thomas makeover the lesbian lover of Alex’s sister being a notable turn) it does have one forceful drawback: the ending is top-heavy with explanation.

The cost of beginning significance film with so many capricious perplexing events is that both sense has to be affirmed to them at the finish off. This emphasis on explanation can derive from Coben’s source new, but perhaps it is intelligibly a characteristic, or failing, sell mystery as a genre. Nonetheless, there is no tolerance reawaken implausibility here, as one backbone find, say, in the pictures of David Lynch or rendering fictions of Harry Mathews celebrated Ben Marcus.

Unexpected events cannot just happen; they need lodging be explained; and the sole kind of coherence or accuracy is factual.

There cannot be obscure happenings, such introduce frogs falling from the welkin to the skies ex, in movies like Tell No Collective. Nonetheless, Tell No One is efficient stylish compelling film that assessment worth a second viewing however probably not a third (at least, not for a declination or so). It’s an costconscious thriller and it delivers disentangle entertaining, enervating experience.

Tell Maladroit thumbs down d One is on release enraged selected cinemas throughout the UK, and is showing at Manchester’s Cornerhouse () from 15 give permission 28 June 2007. Further details:

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