Tell No One

Director : Guillaume Canet
Starring : Francois Cluzet, Marie-Josee Croze, Andre Dussoillier
2006

I thought this was going to be a horror/slasher film. Turns out Tell No One is more of a murder mystery and a decent one at that. I'm sure anything you watch after Blindness will seem like a good movie but I really enjoyed this one. It's french which means usually that it's terrible or really worth while, Tell No One being the latter.

Like many murder mysteries, the main character, Dr Alexandre Beck's wife, Margot dies within the first ten minutes. Also like most french movies, she was naked for like four of those ten minutes, with the other six minutes were mostly credits. I'm not saying if that is a good or a bad thing, I'm jus' sayin'. From here the movie skips to eight years to the present day. Alex still isn't doing that great since the death of his wife. Apparently he was the main suspect in the trial so you know that wasn't fun.

The police stop by his hospital one day and say they found some more bodies near the original scene of the crime. This of course re opens Margot's case and opens still hurting wounds. Weird stuff starts happening though. One being the police show Alex photo's of a pretty beat up Margot that were hidden in a safety deposit box all this time. Slowly he is becoming a suspect again in what was an open case. Next thing you know Margot's former best friend is found dead and the murder weapon is found in Alex's house. To clear things up Alex is being framed for a reason we do not know, the police are chasing after him because they not only suspect him of killing Margot but now her best friend Margot and Alex is being sent strange emails from who he thinks is his wife. The last 30 minutes or so are really good and I won't give anything away. Who killed all those people? Who is framing Alex? Is Margot still alive and if so why did she stay away? Sounds kind of soap operaish now but it is intriguing.

Rating : 4 stars. Again this movie does benefit from being seen post Blindness but I was still into it. It is one of those twist movies that you can't look away from. The acting is nothing special and the french accents do take some getting used to but neither of these hurt the movie.

Best Scene : Other than the twist ending I liked the scene in the park isn't bad. Movie did get a little slow in the middle but the whole chase and van kidnapping sequence was solid.

Quotes: Movies in french so quotes are hard to find.

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Trailer there's some nudity but its youtube so it's not that bad. Anyway I am here to alert and you have been alerted