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Contains strong language and violence.
A phenomenon at the French box office, Guillaume Canet's take on Harlen Coben's multi-million selling novel is an energetic blend of Hollywood thrills and French cinematic style with big crossover appeal. Fran莽ois Cluzet plays the widower who comes under renewed suspicion when his wife's murder case is re-opened, only to receive a mysterious email containing a clue only she would know. What follows is a sometimes laughably convoluted take on the Hitchcockian 'wronged man' format, but one that keeps the thrill-o-meter on high and the suspension of disbelief even more so, largely due to its highly credible cast.
Dr Alexandre Beck (Cluzet) is still grieving for his wife Margot (Marie-Jos茅 Croze) eight years on when he watches webcam footage of her apparently alive and well before being warned to 'Tell no one. They're watching'. Two bodies are then recovered where Margot was murdered, and the police assume Beck is involved, a situation which the mysterious 'they' seem intent on exploiting. So Beck has no choice but to go on the run while trying to work out exactly what's going on and whether his beloved wife is actually still alive.
"BRILLIANT ACTION SET PIECES"
In Tell No One, nothing is quite as it seems and, like Beck, the audience is kept in the dark, piecing together what's happening from small scraps of info. Cluzet makes a great everyman-on-the-run, and boy does he have to run. The film's action set pieces are brilliant; frantic and nerve-wracking, they expertly distract from the plot's thinner moments. Aside from this, a great cast, including Kristen Scott Thomas, Andr茅 Dussollier and Fran莽ois Berl茅and, help keep the film on the right side of credible. Just. In the end, the story's reveal stretches the imagination but its emotional core remains intact.
In French with English subtitles.
Tell No One (Ne Le Dis A Personne) is released in UK cinemas on Friday 15th June 2007.
The twists at the end are completely unexpected.
