“Tell No One,” adapted by French director Guillaume Canet from Harlan Coben’s best seller, is a complicated, intelligent and engaging thriller. Eight years after the murder of his wife, doctor Alex Beck (Francois Cluzet) receives an email from an unknown source. The message contains a real time video image of a woman that Alex is convinced is his wife. In the meantime, the police have circumstantial evidence implicating Alex in another murder. Because the events eight years ago still haunt Alex, he investigates the mysterious woman in the video and in doing so, uncovers a string of secrets that endanger his life.
An American film adaptation of Coben’s novel would have added more action and simplified the story. For whatever reason, US film studios underestimate audience intelligence. [Or maybe not. After all, consider “Step Brothers.”] To be sure, “Tell No One” demands that you pay attention. Much of what happened to Alex eight years ago is told in several flashbacks and the director counts on his audience being able to put all of the puzzle pieces together. Francois Cluzet, resembling a young Dustin Hoffman, has an intensity that pulls you into his character and holds the film together. “Tell No One” is about one man’s search for the truth. And it is a journey you will enjoy taking. (7/18/08)
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This movie was so good you should "Tell Every One."
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