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I hesitate to reveal more; suffice it to say that the film which was already nominated for six Cesars including Best Film (France’s version of the Oscars) and took home four statues for actor Cluzet, director Canet, editing, and music, is one of those sleeper foreign films that mystery fans have been craving for months. Needles to say, it seems as though the French have perfected not only romantic comedies but also post-Hitchcockian tales of mystery and suspense. Granted, initially, so entranced by the mystery, I began assuming this was just another in a long line of clever thrillers from the country including the brilliant, underrated With a Friend Like Harry and Claude Chabrol’s creepy, understated Merci Pour Le Chocolat, yet perhaps because it’s based on a contemporary book by an American writer, the film itself feels not only extremely contemporary but also as though it could take place in any country.
Indeed you couple that with a phenomenal soundtrack featuring Otis Redding, Jeff Buckley, and U2 and suddenly you have a thriller in which even those who hate reading subtitles or have a bizarre dislike for the French will become completely lost.
Therefore, instead of following the title’s advice of telling no one, I hope — aside from the whole obstruction of justice and fleeing from authority debacles — you’ll use Dr. Beck as an example and tell everyone. No doubt, even if you somehow disliked the film, you’ll want to… if only to boast that you were able to wrap your head around each and every one of the film’s audaciously unexpected twists and turns. So in the end, like The Sixth Sense, in Tell No One, we do see dead people — yet unlike The Village, Unbreakable, and Signs, we see a whole hell of a lot more than that and in one movie to boot.
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