Tell No One (15)

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Tue Jun 12 2007

French actor-turned-director Guillaume Canet had a big hit in France with this widescreen, big-budget adaptation of US writer Harlan Coben’s best-selling thriller. As the film veers violently from housebound, bourgeois psychological thriller – with locations in Rambouillet and Lake Charmaine – to urban action adventure and back again, it certainly makes its main actor, François Cluzet, jump though all the acting hoops. As the widowed paediatrician whom the police supect of involvement in his wife’s savage murder eight years earlier, he does well to retain the composure and air of Hitchcockian ambivalence necessary to cast shadows of doubt in the audience’s mind. Cluzet certainly shows better heels and stamina than Tom Cruise as he sprints through the markets and motorways of suburban Paris trying to evade both the police and mystery assailants as he pursues his hunt for a mystery woman who may or may not be his dead wife. In the way these things go, the film’s very implausibilities – would tough, urban locals really help such a man? – aid its enjoyment. But the surfeit of plot twists and turns become progressively confusing and redundant. Compensation comes with some fruity cameos – notably from Kristin Scott Thomas’s lesbian helpmeet and Jean Rochefort’s supremely unhelpful local toff – presenting reassuring caricatures of the kind that used to grace and brighten ‘Inspector Morse’. It’s ably if not inspirationally directed and Christophe Offenstein’s fluid camera tracks the action well enough, but any pretence to subtlety or sophistication seems lost in translation.

Author: Wally Hammond

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Fri Jun 15 2007

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(11 ratings)

Very enjoyable, sometimes confusing but stay with it and all becomes clear.

stef and ben Sun Dec 18 2011
Rated as: 5/5
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Too many characters, unsympathetic main actor, confusing implausible plot, enjoyed the music.

marion Mon Aug 29 2011
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While it is worth seeing , I found it overly convoluted and my mind wandered at times. Although it is well acted , I didn't really care about the characters , many of whom looked alike. I also felt the chase scene , while well done , was unneccesary and only contributed to the overlong running time of the film.

mr.mike Sun Aug 14 2011
Rated as: 3/5
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Michael Caine recommended this on the radio the other day and so I got it from Lovefilm. I thought it was brilliant and as someone says above so much better than Tom Cruise

Pat Fri May 8 2009
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A good, enjoyable action/thriller. Not the best film I've ever seen but certainly well worth watching. The plot is implausible but, hey, who cares. It does demand a basic level of intelligence and literacy. If you have difficulty reading subtitles then don't bother; it will be too confusing for you.

maggie Wed Feb 18 2009
Rated as: 4/5
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Implausible , ocnfusing but hugely entertaining - all shall be revealed but ... tell no one!

Ric D Fri Feb 15 2008
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loved this film but wondering if there really is a lake charmaine in france. I know there is one in texas which is where the author used to go. I'm interested as my name is charmaine. glad if someone could fill me in.

dr charmaine Mon Feb 4 2008
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An excellent fast paced thriller based on an American novel transplanted to France motored by a moving love story. The central character acts like a young Dustin Hoffman in his Marathon Man period. The plot if looked at in the cold light of day is too implausible, has too many twists and turns to convince. When is a dead person dead? when it is proved beyond the shadow of a doubt.Many shadows are thrown across Alexander Beck's path. He believes through mystery emails, she is alive. However the cops and shadowy gangsters (in pay to an unscrupulous owner of horse stables) are moving in and pursuing our erstwhile hero.What makes the action more gripping, the character more moving is the film is brilliantly edited and directed with good background music, shot in good urban and countryside locations. You may have to watch it twice with a notepad for the names of different characters and where they fit in the story to benefit.

Technoguy Fri Oct 26 2007
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Very disappointing. Reminded me of Angela Lansbury's daytime TV's 'Murder She Wrote' with its stereotypical characterisations. The main male actor is wooden. I couldn't have cared less about him. The film did pick up in the middle but ended how it began - with a wimper.

Dennis Sun Aug 5 2007
Rated as: 3/5
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If you scrutinise the plot too closely of course it'll fall apart - but overlook that and just enjoy it. This is another one they'll be re-making for the U.S. market. And the main actor does look like the abandoned love child of Dustin Hoffman and Peter Mandelson !....

Derek Debett Wed Jul 25 2007
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