Tell No One - Preview
Preview by Jack Foley
GUILLAUME Canet’s Tell No One became a runaway box office hit when it was released in France and it’s easy to see why.
The film is an intelligent, occasinally exciting but always intruging thriller that keeps audiences guessing throughout.
It’s due for a UK release on June 15 and is well worth taking a trip to see if you require a break from the effects-laden Hollywood blockbusters.
The film follows the fortunes of pediatric Alex Beck (Francois Cluzet) who is still coming to terms with the savage murder of his wife Margot (Marie-Josee Croze) in the early days of their marriage eight years before.
His life changes, however, when he receives an anonymous email, the link from which shows him a woman’s face standing in a crowd and being filmed in real time. The face looks like Margot’s face and raises the possibility that she could still be alive. But why does she instruct him to tell no one?
Alex barely has time to raise the lid of this Pandora’s Box, however, ,before the police re-open the case and make him the number one suspect.
For the follow-up to his critically-acclaimed directorial debut, Mon Idole (Whatever You Say), French actor Guillaume (The Beach) Canet has rounded up a stellar cast, including Kristen Scott-Thomas, Nathalie Baye, André Dussollier and Jean Rochefort.
The result is utterly absorbing viewing.
Canet said he was compelled to make the film after reading the novel upon which it is based.
“I liked the accumulation of genres – thriller, love story, suspense – and I soon identified what I wanted to tweak in the characters to add the little offbeat touch that I was after; the nervous tics of Berleand’s character for example.
“It was truly the first time I read something I hadn’t written that I could see myself directing. As I read the book, I could picture the film in my mind’s eye.
“I knew exactly what I wanted to do with it and, after we had written the script, as were getting ready to shoot, I tried to ensure I never lost sight of those initial emotions.”
Like we said, Tell No One opens on June 15 and it’s well worth going to see!