{"id":1022,"date":"2008-08-29T21:51:34","date_gmt":"2008-08-30T01:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/?p=1022"},"modified":"2022-10-24T18:05:08","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T22:05:08","slug":"ne-le-dis-a-personne-tell-no-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/ne-le-dis-a-personne-tell-no-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Le fugitif: Guillaume Canet’s Ne le dis \u00e0 personne (Tell No One)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Guillaume Canet’s\u00a0Ne le dis \u00e0 personne (Tell No One)<\/em> enjoyed a surprisingly wide US theatrical release for a French film without huge English-speaking stars (except for Englishwoman Kristin Scott Thomas, perfectly fluent in French). Roger Ebert rightly compared<\/a> the tightly crafted thriller with The Fugitive<\/em>, placing it squarely in Hitchcockian wrong-man-accused territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pediatrician Alex Beck (Fran\u00e7ois Cluzet) finds himself the prime suspect of his wife’s murder, eight years prior. This being a French film, the fortysomething Beck was married to the utterly gorgeous younger Margot (Marie-Josee Croze, great in Julien Schnabel’s The Diving Bell and the Butterfly<\/em><\/a>). One might accept this as a given premise of the story, for sometimes old coots really do bag hot young wives, had the film not ruined it by demonstrating via flashback that the characters are supposed to be the same age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Run Beck Run<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I found Tell No One<\/em> more focused and engaging before the conspiracy widens to an almost absurd degree, enveloping even a Senator in a vast cover-up. I will admit to being confused at times; to grasp the details and convoluted timeline, viewers will have to remember character names, not faces, as the chronology of some key plot points are conveyed via exposition (that is, told, not shown).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Funny how bad things happen to people who skinny dip in movies.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Hints of the recent race\/class tensions in France are built into the plot: Beck’s equanimity as a pediatrician earned the trust of some less privileged thugs on the wrong side of the law. That they will aid him when no one else will ironically demonstrates his essential goodness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Guillaume Canet’s\u00a0Ne le dis \u00e0 personne (Tell No One) enjoyed a surprisingly wide US theatrical release for a French film without huge English-speaking stars (except for Englishwoman Kristin Scott Thomas, perfectly fluent in French). Roger Ebert rightly compared the tightly crafted thriller with The Fugitive, placing it squarely in Hitchcockian wrong-man-accused territory. Pediatrician Alex Beck […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,2],"tags":[1515,39,181,180,182,45,44],"class_list":["post-1022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-3-stars","category-movies","tag-1515","tag-france","tag-francois-cluzet","tag-kristin-scott-thomas","tag-marie-josee-croze","tag-suspense","tag-thriller"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/tell-no-one-feature.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa9lhB-gu","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1817,"url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/ive-loved-you-so-long\/","url_meta":{"origin":1022,"position":0},"title":"Kristin Scott Thomas is unshowy but brilliant in Philippe Claudel’s I’ve Loved You So Long","author":"Chad Ossman","date":"June 21, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Writer \/ director Philippe Claudel's I've Loved You So Long is a textbook exercise in the dramatic withholding of narrative information. 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