Director: Guillaume Canet
Starring: François Cluzet (Alex), Marie-Josée Croze (Margot), André Dussollier, Kristin Scott Thomas
Tell No One (2006)
Tell No One (2006) is a wonderful suspense film. If the story is stripped to the core, it is actually a suspenseful story with a traditional structure. However, under the control of director Guillaume Canet, not only is it tightly gripping, it allows the audience to automatically assume the role, experience the anxiety of the role, and enjoy the fun of solving the mystery.
The film is based on a novel by American Harlan Coben, but the location of the story is moved from New York to Paris. The first ten minutes of the movie demonstrated the director’s ability to control the atmosphere. At the beginning, the protagonist Alex and his wife Margot had a relaxing meal with friends and relatives on a holiday in the country. The summer nights, warm lights, a piece of relaxation and warmth; Then the two swim naked together in a small lake that seems to be a paradise, as if there is only the witness of heaven and earth; all the accumulation of emotions is to make the ensuing disaster more impactful. The center of the story is that 8 years later, Alex received a strange email calling him Tell no one, asking him to go to a website to watch a real-time webcam image at the appointed time. The picture appeared to be attacked 8 years ago. Margot who died. Alex began to pursue this clue, and then he was suspected by the police as the murderer of his wife. This triggers a chain reaction, the plot is linked to each other, and many seemingly inadvertent details are actually postscripts in the future. In the film, there are not only solving puzzles, but also chasing and fleeing in the downtown area, kidnapping and murder, and even involving the reality of the polarization of the rich and the poor in the French society.
Tell No One (2006)
The best part of this movie is the director and actor. The director’s skill is reflected in his relaxation, he does not need too much sound and light stimulation to attract the audience, and instead of blindly chasing and dispelling obsessions, he still has time to join in love, family and friendship to adjust emotions. The actor's success is to convince the audience that he is an ordinary person and has a persistent and fanatical mentality. In addition to the commercial success of this film in France, it also won the Caesar Award for best director, best actor, best editing and other important awards, and it was evenly matched with Lady Chatterley. The heroine of Lady Chatterley also appeared in the film as a supporting role. The Canadian actor Marie-Josée Croze, who played the heroine Margot, once played the Dutch female assassin in Munich. It is worth mentioning that Kristin Scott Thomas, who plays the actor's sister’s girlfriend, is a British actor (the most famous work is English Patient), and is said to be one of the few British actors whose French is good enough to be French.
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