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Tell No One is that rare thing, a French thriller that bears all the hallmarks of a Hollywood remake, only with the French left in. There's no actual time to ponder the glossy look and feel though, as François Cluzet's stoic but grief-stricken widower Alex races to clear his name, when the case of his wife's murder is reopened after eight years. This set up is wound even tighter upon his receipt of an email, seemingly from his wife, instructing him to follow those titular instructions.
What follows is a nerve-tugging chase movie – making best possible use of Harlan Coben’s source material – as Alex ducks and weaves between shady underworld goons, a gang of surprisingly helpful thugs and two laid back detectives, all of whom help raise the game of cat and mouse to dizzying heights. The twists and turns are many, and even though the story is a little too long, and its reveal steeped in a Miss Marple-sized helping of exposition, the film’s emotional centre remains intact to the very last scene. While a big studio remake of Tell No One won’t be short on A-List appeal and big noisy action, matching this film’s mix of thrills and heart will be a rare feat indeed. --Luke Mawson
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After his critically-acclaimed directorial debut, Mon Idole (Whatever You Say), French actor Guillaume Canet now brings us Tell No One, based on American writer Harlan Coben's bestselling thriller. Pediatric Alex, devastated since his wife Margot was savagely murdered in the early days of their marriage eight years before, receives an anonymous email. When he clicks on the link indicated, he sees a woman's face standing in a crowd and being filmed in real time. Margot's face... Is she still alive? And why does she instruct him to tell no one? So many questions that our hero does not have time to consider: he barely even has time to raise the lid of this Pandora's Box before the police reopen the case. And, eight years down the line, the cops are determined that he will take the rap for murder. Canet has rounded up a stellar cast, which includes Marie-Josée Croze, Kristen Scott-Thomas, Nathalie Baye, André Dussollier, Jean Rochefort, Marina Hands and Canet himself in a $20-million budget thriller featuring relentless suspense and breathtaking action.
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176 of 185 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
'Tell No One' (called 'Ne le dis à personne' in France) is the French film adaption of the bestselling stand-alone novel from Harlan Coben. The film begins when Alex Beck and his wife and long-time love, Margot visit the Beck family lake house for their 13th anniversary. During a late night swim in the lake Alex and Margot are attacked and left for dead. A few days later Margot's beaten body is found.
Eight years later and still struck with grief and heartache from the death of his wife, Alex receives a mysterious e-mail with a link to a webcam where his wife appears to still be alive. The email instructs him to Tell No One, leaving Alex wondering if his wife is still alive and he is now also a main suspect for some other bodies found at the lake and possibly also for his wife's apparent murder.
This is an excellent adaption of one of the best thrillers I've ever read and the French setting does not affect the story at all (the book is based in America), in fact it makes it better. The subtitles did put me off at first but once I was 10 minutes or so into the film I didn't even notice they were there. There's lots of plot twists and plenty of action and suspense. The characters are all played perfectly to the book's counterparts and the story is absolutely spot-on. My only disappointment really was that because I had read the book I already knew what was going to happen next.
Overall this is a perfect adaptation and is one that both fans of the book and thriller movie fans too should love. Highly recommended.
Eight years later and still struck with grief and heartache from the death of his wife, Alex receives a mysterious e-mail with a link to a webcam where his wife appears to still be alive. The email instructs him to Tell No One, leaving Alex wondering if his wife is still alive and he is now also a main suspect for some other bodies found at the lake and possibly also for his wife's apparent murder.
This is an excellent adaption of one of the best thrillers I've ever read and the French setting does not affect the story at all (the book is based in America), in fact it makes it better. The subtitles did put me off at first but once I was 10 minutes or so into the film I didn't even notice they were there. There's lots of plot twists and plenty of action and suspense. The characters are all played perfectly to the book's counterparts and the story is absolutely spot-on. My only disappointment really was that because I had read the book I already knew what was going to happen next.
Overall this is a perfect adaptation and is one that both fans of the book and thriller movie fans too should love. Highly recommended.
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
TELL NO ONE is a complex thriller cum poignant love story. Canet employs typical European tropes to produce a piece of nicely understated cinema that neatly avoids Hollywood excesses. We follow a grieving man's descent into turmoil when his long-dead wife appears to make an enigmatic reappearance. The small-scale action is always impressive and the bursts of violence shocking in their realism. The actors are equally effective at portraying everyday, believable characters placed in extraordinary circumstances. My only criticisms are that the plot is perhaps too convoluted and the resolution somewhat implausible. That said this is a successful puzzler that will keep you guessing and entertained throughout.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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The reality is, if this was an American film it would be a run-of-the-mill pot-boiler that you'd forget a couple of days later. It drags on a bit and it all rests on a very convoluted and implausible premise. If, like me, you are increasingly turning to non-English language films for something original and plot-driven in comparison to the surfeit of CGI/3-D garbage coming out of Hollywood then you'll be disappointed. This is a film that simply proves the French are as capable as anyone of making plodding, instantly forgettable stuff that would struggle to make par as an episode of "Murder She Wrote". One of the glaring implausibilities is the thug from one of the banlieues who owes such a debt of gratitude to the doctor who diagnosed his son with haemophilia that he's prepared to chase round Paris rescuing him from kidnappers, committing murder in the process. Curiously, in the last 5 minutes there is a sudden "art-house" flourish, as if the cinematographer was champing at the bit to give full rein to his artistic abilities.
You could do worse of an evening, I guess...
You could do worse of an evening, I guess...
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Title: Tell No One
Running Time: 126 minutes (approx.)
Screen: Anamorphic
Aspect Ratio: 2. Read more
Running Time: 126 minutes (approx.)
Screen: Anamorphic
Aspect Ratio: 2. Read more
Published 13 days ago by K. Harvey
loved this movie
This movie has something for everyone, true love, action, murder and few surprises. The acting is 1st class and the music is great. French movies at their best
Published 1 month ago by Delilah
enjoyable but flawed
When trying to cope with bereavement, we long for contact with the person so cruelly taken away. We want to tell them things we left unsaid, we want to ask for their advice, for... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Biffer Spice
Very entertaining
Very good movie that keeps you on the edge until the finale. Rumours there is an american re make soon - so watch this now!
Published 3 months ago by Pug74
Tell no one film - fabulous!
This is quite simply the very best film I have seen in a long time!! The story is fabulous and the way it keeps unfolding all the way through really keeps you interested and... Read more
Published 3 months ago by A. Latifa
Good
It's a good film, but I'm not going to lie, I was scared!! Could be hard to follow for some people, not due to reading the English subtitles, but due to the complex plot.
Published 3 months ago by vanillatea
Very very good film simple
i think everyone should see this atleast once in there lives.
you wont guess the ending, a very clever film.
truely impressed im not a film buff at all. Read more
you wont guess the ending, a very clever film.
truely impressed im not a film buff at all. Read more
Published 3 months ago by A Customer
An almost perfect thriller
This thriller is pretty close to perfect, only really let down by that fact that the plot is so complex that even the protagonist has to have the story explained to him. Read more
Published 4 months ago by T. N. F. LYNCH
An enjoyable watch
Nothing wrong with this film - definitely worth a couple of hours of time.
I'd read the book a couple of years back and could only vaguely remember bits of the plot. Read more
I'd read the book a couple of years back and could only vaguely remember bits of the plot. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Caractacus
Superb: an intelligent, classy, beautifully crafted and fast moving...
Cryptic emails are reaching the inbox of Paris paediatrician, Alexandre Beck. Each comes from an account created on the fly, apparently by his wife, and used just the once. Read more
Published 6 months ago by philip
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