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Absolutely amazing

A different way of telling a story

Go in cold, and you're likely to emerge with your blood boiling. This has to be seen to be believed.

The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

One of those murder mysteries where you don't have a clue what's going on, but you still can't take your eyes off the screen. Guess that's what Harlan Coben stories are like. Don't know, never read one, but I hear readers of his stuff can't put the book down. Probably would take watching the movie 2-3 times to get it.Really, it just moves too fast to "get it." Hard to watch and read subtitles AND "get it." However, I read Roger Ebert's review, and he said, don't worry about "getting it," just enjoy the ride. So, I did. Though murder mystery is not my "genre" I thoroughly enjoyed wasting a couple of hours watching this one. There are moments when the sincerity and intensity in the lead guy's face is enough to keep you glued to your seat. Not to mention the beautiful women AND great music. The opening scene, an outdoor country dinner party with friends is irresistible, even down to the architecture of the country house.

Tell No One is based on Harlan Coben's international best-selling thriller--that's all you need to know. If you are into that, cool. Or maybe you just want to shut the mind off and watch some easy entertainment...cool. It may even be fair to say Tell No One is slightly more sophisticated in its execution-story wise and directorially--than some other movies of its ilk. Though there is the unchangeable fact that It is high anxiety, cliché riddled, mainstream schlock. Though the film does contain Jeff Buckley's rendition of "Lilac Wine," so there is that.

'Tell No One' is a French thriller based on the novel of the same name written by Harlan Coben. It is directed by Guillaume Canet and stars François Cluzet, Marie-Josée Croze, Kristin Scott Thomas and others. Margot and Alex are a happily married couple who have been close to each other since their childhood. But Margot gets abducted and subsequently killed while they were on their annual ritualistic vacation at Lake Charmaine. Eight years after this incident, Alex suddenly starts receiving mysterious e-mails from anonymous sources and a complex mystery follows.When I watched the film, I did it without having the knowledge that it is based on an American crime novel. But while watching it, I noticed that the film has a very American style of storytelling. It is a very fast paced thriller quite reminiscent of the works of David Fincher. It certainly doesn't have the slow, brooding, quality that you tend to associate with European cinema. So after watching it when I became aware of the fact that the source material is an American novel, it made sense to me. I think there is one basic difference between a good thriller and a fantastic one. A good thriller is a film which might not have the most unpredictable storyline, but still manages to keep the viewer enthralled and hooked. But a fantastic/great thriller is one which has a great style of storytelling which keeps the viewer engaged throughout coupled with an unpredictable storyline which keeps the viewer guessing(considering he/she has not read the original book if it is based on one). Without a doubt,as far as I am concerned, 'Tell No One' belongs to the latter category. This film has properly developed characters, the romance between Alex and Margot seemed completely convincing and the intricate details of the storyline holds up even after retrospective analysis which isn't always the case when you're talking thrillers.The primary element of the film is the romance between Alex and Margot. I believed that Alex would not have been able to fully get over Margot after her death, so when things start happening in relation to Margot after 8 years, I completely bought that Alex would jump in and try to get to the bottom of things. I thing unpredictability of human nature is also a theme in the film. You expect certain characters to act in a certain manner, but they turn out to be something completely different.The screenplay and direction has to be admired extensively. When the original story in the novel is as complicated as this, the screenplay becomes essential for making it film-compatible. The combination of the screenplay written by Guillaume Canet and Philippe Lefebvre along with the direction by Guillaume Canet works so well, that the film instead of collapsing due to its complexity,ends up reveling in its complexity. The film beautifully progresses and different layers get peeled off in an organic manner. In many films the ultimate explanation is executed in a forced way. But Canet brilliantly uses this explanation scene in a way which is contextually relevant and plausible. The last shot of the film is very sweet and satisfying. I also loved the cinematography in the film, specially in the forest scenes with the green of the trees and grasses filling up the shots.The acting is absolutely flawless from all concerned. François Cluzet (the Dustin Hoffman lookalike) commands the screen as Alex,the protagonist. Another actor who deserves the special mention is Kristin Scott Thomas. She is British, but she effortlessly plays a French woman and makes it as convincing as ever.The only problem that I have with the film is that there is one chase scene which involves a few set pieces. Now these set pieces are brilliantly shot and directed. But they just felt a little out of place and sort of inconsistent with the mood and the tone of the rest of the film.But apart from that minor reservation, I really loved 'Tell No One'. It is a tightly paced, unpredictable film which keeps the viewer guessing. Hugely Recommended.

The music in the opening scene of this French movie should give a strong hint to the viewer about what to expect. It's a soul song which combines oddly with the first shots of an apparently idyllic gathering in the French countryside. What follows is however all but idyllic. It's a complex thriller drama about a murder that happened eight years before, a love story and a disappearance that refuses to heal. One of the most intelligent and most sensitive stories in the genre that I have seen lately.It may come as a surprise that the film is French, but inspired by a novel and a story written by Harlan Coben. The fine author of mystery novels and thrillers had amazingly few encounters with the movies, this being as far as I know his only novel brought to the big screens. The approach taken by director Guillaume Canet places the story in France (of course) but none of the characters belongs to any specific localization. Beyond the love story and beyond the sophisticated detective story that is smartly and consistently built, there is a quality of the making that keeps the interest (both intellectual and emotional) awake for the duration of the more than two hours that the film lasts (another Hollywood influence?).Much of the quality can be attributed to the excellent team of actors, and first among equally good François Cluzet - one of these actors who make you feel their emotions without any apparent effort, just by being himself. The hand of the director is light, he just does professionally his job enjoying the fine team of actors and the intelligent script he has at hands and making us enjoy the story as well. Now I just hope that the studios in Hollywood will not reclaim back this film for an American remake.