

But it shows what love and care went into the construction of the puzzle.

Such thoughts would never occur during the film, which is too enthralling. One of the assassins looks a little like Alex, but has a beard.

Two blondes who are angular professional women. A cop and a crook who have similar personal styles. There are two cops closely on either side of retirement age. If you give enough thought to the film, you'll begin to realize that many of the key roles are twinned, high and low. And the movie gives full weight to these characters they are necessary and handled with care. Also a soft-porn fashion photographer, a band of vicious assassins, street thugs, and on and on. There are: Alex's sister ( Marina Hands) her lesbian lover ( Kristin Scott Thomas) the rich senator, whose obsession is race horses ( Jean Rochefort) Margot's father ( Andre Dussollier) the police captain who alone believes Alex is innocent ( Francois Berleand) the helpful crook ( Gilles Lellouche), and the senator's son (Guillaume Canet himself). It contains a rich population of characters, but has been so carefully cast that we're never confused. "Tell No One" was directed and co-scripted by Guillaume Canet, working with Harlan Coben, the American author of the novel which inspired it. And still I've left out so much - but I wouldn't want to reveal a single detail that would spoil the mystery. Is she still alive? He needs to elude the cops long enough to make a rendezvous in a park. Alex has been electrified by cryptic e-mail messages that could only come from Margot. He is helped by a crook he once did a favor for the crook has friends who seem to be omnipresent.Īh, but already I've left out a multitude of developments. His path takes him through Clignancourt, the labyrinthine antiques market and into the mean streets on the other side. It is a wonderfully photographed chase, including a dance across both lanes of an expressway.

"You realize he just signed his own confession?" a cop says to the lawyer.Īlex is in very good shape. Alex is tipped off by his attorney ( Nathalie Baye) and flees out the window of his office at the hospital just before the cops arrive. There is the lockbox that contains suspicious photographs and a shotgun tied to another murder. Now the stage is set for a dilemma that resembles in some ways " The Fugitive." Evidence is found that incriminates Alex: a murder weapon, for example, in his apartment. He was hit so hard before falling back into the water that he was in a coma for three days. Although Margot's case was believed solved, suspicion of Alex has never entirely died out. Two bodies are found buried in the forest where it is believed she was murdered, and the investigation is reopened. He has never remarried and still longs for Margot. Alex is a pediatrician in a Paris hospital.
