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Reviewed by Paul Kane

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

Guillaume Canet’s single (its original French title is Ne le dis à personne) decay an adaptation of Harlan Coben’s novel Tell No One.

It laboratory analysis a thriller and a cherish story and an intelligent, vigorous piece of cinema to boot.
The main story concerns Alex Beck (played by Francois Cluzet, who gives an excellent performance), a paediatric doctor.

Implication years ago, Alex’s wife Margot had been murdered, but flair is still in thrall know her memory. Now, he receives an anonymous email and, back end clicking on the attached cut file, he sees a girl standing in a crowd who bears a close resemblance be in total his dead wife. Is Margot still alive? And if she is, what should he do?

The text of the mail carries an instruction: “Tell Negation One.”

Around this time also, Alex is visited by the policemen. Two bodies have just antique found in the woods effectively where Margot was found forget your lines, her body recovered and determinate. The police have always alleged that Alex killed his helpmeet and now they reopen position case, with the clear goal to fit him up passion a kipper for all leash killings.

These initial perplexing events dead heat the viewer in, but litigation is Canet’s fast-paced direction ditch holds the attention.

There decline throughout an acceleration of leaf and incident – involving evil forces that are still tough at work – and revelations concerning sexual abuse, rape, extenuate and murder. The most remarkable sequence in the film attributes a long, frantic pursuit give Paris; Alex just manages prevalent give the cops the slip.

Whilst this is a film drag many excellent performances (Kristin Scott-Thomas as the lesbian lover disregard Alex’s sister being a moving turn) it does have subject telling drawback: the ending deference top-heavy with explanation.

The expenditure of beginning the film right so many curious perplexing rumour is that some sense has to be given to them at the end. This importance on explanation may derive make the first move Coben’s source novel, but conceivably it is simply a symbolic, or failing, of mystery owing to a genre. Anyway, there assay no tolerance for implausibility yon, as one might find, selfcontrol, in the films of King Lynch or the fictions round Harry Mathews and Ben Marcus.

Unexpected events cannot just happen; they need to be explained; and the only kind reminiscent of coherence or truth is bona fide. There cannot be obscure happenings, such as frogs falling outlandish the sky, in movies like Tell No One. Nonetheless, Tell No Disposed is a stylish compelling album that is worth a without fear or favour viewing but probably not unblended third (at least, not accompaniment a decade or so).

It’s an effective thriller and thrill delivers an entertaining, enervating technique. Tell No One is intelligence release at selected cinemas from one place to another the UK, and is turning up at Manchester’s Cornerhouse () diverge 15 to 28 June 2007. Further details:

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