The supporting cast of Nathalie Baye, Kristin Scott Thomas and Francois Berléand supply gloss to the picture, though its plotting becomes so convoluted that tension drains away
Tell No One (2008)
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Reviews Counted:99
Fresh:92
Rotten:7
Average Rating:7.5/10
Consensus: An intense, well-crafted thriller, Tell No One is equal parts heart-pounding and heart-wrenching.
Theatrical Release:15-06-2007
Synopsis: Francois Cluzet stars in this French thriller from director Guillaume Canet. Eight years after the heinous murder of his wife, doctor Alex Beck receives an ominous email from an unknown source. The... Francois Cluzet stars in this French thriller from director Guillaume Canet. Eight years after the heinous murder of his wife, doctor Alex Beck receives an ominous email from an unknown source. The message contains a video image of Alex's thought-to-be dead wife in real time. [More]
Starring: Francois Cluzet, Kristin Scott Thomas, Marina Hands, Marie-Josee Croze
Starring: Francois Cluzet, Kristin Scott Thomas, Marina Hands, Marie-Josee Croze, André Dussollier, Guillaume Canet
Director: Guillaume Canet
Director: Guillaume Canet
Screenwriter: Guillaume Canet, Philippe Lefebvre
Producer: Alain Attal
Composer: Mathieu Chedid
Studio: Music Box Films
Reviews for Tell No One
A gripping thriller, this deserves to cross over from the subtitled bracket into mainstream cinema.
Tell No One retains all the slick dynamism and tension of a classic Hollywood thriller without ever seeming anything but French.
An array of Gallic stars who fill small roles and know how to make the best of them.
It’s exhausting but enthralling from start to finish. Once you’ve seen it I guarantee you’ll want to tell all your friends.
In short, Tell No One is a thoroughly enjoyable thriller with a cracking plot, superb performances and exciting action sequences. How come Hollywood can't make thrillers this good anymore? Highly recommended.
This twisty thriller nicely avoids Hollywood formulae, keeping us gripped to the complicated story and characters
Shot-through with emotional intensity, a muscular, brooding direction, and a plot that (just) stays on the right side of ludicrous.
Chopping back and forth in time, it’s dynamically shot but overreaches with a flurry of dramatic revelations.
Christophe Offenstein’s fluid camera tracks the action well enough, but any pretence to subtlety or sophistication seems lost in translation.
The supporting cast, including Kristin Scott Thomas and Nathalie Baye, are strong. It’s a watchable thriller
It feels like an American movie, dubbed in French ... Or perhaps, better put, it feels like a bunch of French people trying to act like Americans.
never comes to grips with its standard-issue plot mechanics, delivering neither the icy thriller that its cool detachment edges towards, nor the pulse-quickening potboiler that its story would seem to demand.
Constructed like a calling card for Hollywood employment, as when a montage of funeral and wedding memories is underscored with 'Lilac Wine' by Jeff Buckley.
overpacked...technically proficient and will be sure to delight mystery fans, but despite Cluzet's centering performance, the film moves too fast to engage with the lives at stake.
All the clues make sense when pieced together -- but only on the surface.
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