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If you are willing to meet the movie halfway, then “Tell No One” will play as a awesome thriller for you. At times, you will feel that it is too perplexing, when you are sure to be witnessing loose ends. It has been devised that way, and the director knows what he is doing. It is never boring and baffling. I have heard of airtight plots, but this one is not merely airtight. It is hermetically sealed.
The set up is the simple part. We meet a married couple who are sweethearts since childhood. Alex (Francois Cluzet) and Margot (Marie-Josee Croze) go skinny dipping in a secluded pond. They doze off on the raft and get into a little quarrel. She eventually ends up swimming ashore. Alex hears a scream and swims to the dock before climbing the ladder and gets knocked unconscious.
Time skip eight years into the future. Alex has now become a pediatrician in a hospital in Paris. He has yet to remarry and continues to miss Margot. While searching in the woods for her remains, two bodies are found which results in the investigation being reopened. Even though suspicion of Alex has never been fully confirmed, he does have a history with Margot’s case which makes him appear suspicious. He did fall so forcefully before going under the water, he was in a coma for three days. So, how did he come to be lying on the dock?
This creates a unique challenge only Alex can overcome – his personal fugitive. There is a murder weapon found in his apartment which acts as prima facie evidence against him, and he also has a box containing suspicious photographs of him with a shotgun and and another murder. His lawyer, Nathalie Baye, warns him and just in the nick of time he jumps out of his office window at the hospital which was his office at the time. “Do you understand he just confessed?” One cop says to the lawyer.
Alex is in incredible workout condition. He is currently running away from the police. The chase is beautifully shot, even featuring a ballet style crossing of an expressway. His route takes him through Clignancourt, the maze-like antique market and into the more dangerous parts of town. He shares a dumpster with a rat. One time, he was assisted by a crook whose favor he once did; the crook has people who seem to be everywhere.
Oh, but I have left out so much. Alex is in a daze caused by the constant influx of enigmatic email layering in from Margot, leading him to question her very existence. It’s crucial for him to escape the cops to be on time for a meet in the park. Yet again, I’ve left out everything else. I do not want to give away any more pieces of information out since it would ruin everything.
The movie “Tell No One” recently premiered at the Cannes Festival and has received critical acclaim. Guess why? Guillaume Canet, who co-wrote the script and directed the movie, ensured the intricate cast was carefully handled. The film stars Jean Rochefort, who plays an obsiblser senator racing enthusiast alongside Andre dussollier and Kristin. Aided with solid performances from hand and thethomas, the father-daughter duo was flawless. Moreover, the plot thickens with street thugs, gentle-assassin photographers, and Connect’s personally favorite character, the crook, Camusola. From great reviews, it all sounds full circle, fulfilling every inch of the taste test.
Once you delve into the depths of the film, you will notice that there are doubles on almost all sides of the important positions, both upper and lower. There is a pair of policemen who are just about to retire. Two cuddly brown-haired women. There is a policeman and a woman who stylistically resembles him. There are two blondes who are sharp and businesslike. There are two lady lawyers. One of the orderlies is somewhat like Alex except for the fact that he wears a beard. These kinds of ideas would never come to mind during the film – it is far too captivating. But it reveals for which the care and the devotion that went to the construction to the puzzle.
The unexpected details are part of the film’s pleasures. The big dog Alex drags around. Two completely out of context occasions during which Christian Louboutin’s red-soled shoes are worn. The middle of everything has a steeplechase. Flashbacks are framed in such a way that the first one shows less than what is revealed when it is reprised. Before we get the answers, they are dangled in front of us and then snatched out of our grasp. The technique of the computer. Some morgue photos take a torturous route. The broken down lawyer whose name has been reduced to a cardboard sign placed on a door. Alex is teaching a small girl with great patience. The film is probably a miracle because it runs just over the two hours mark.
Now let’s talk about the cast. Knowing how realistic his story is, it is easy to think that Francois Cluzet is convincing as the hero of the film because he is handsome in a middle aged Dustin Hoffman sort of way. Kristin Scott Thomas is less of an insider than one would presume. The one and only Jean Rochefort whom I consider to be legendary plays a part which the great John Huston would have killed to play. The one and only legendary Francois Berleand plays a part of an old policeman who resembles Maigret. And the one and only legendary Andre Dussollier sits on the bench for as long as the script allows until it’s time for the others to come in. Francois Cluzet as the hero is for me just perfect. As far as a thriller is concerned, this is how it should be done.
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