Tag Archive: Hitchcockian


TELL NO ONE

Tell No One (Ne le dis à personne)  directed by Guillaume Canet based on a novel by Harlan Coben (2006)

Tell No One is  is a very stylish French thriller which is well worth watching before Hollywood releases a superfluous remake.

Here is a brief spoiler free plot summary :

Alex (François Cluzet) wife Margot (Marie-José Croze) were childhood sweethearts and are now happily married. They still get gooey over a heart they carved on a tree trunk soon after their first kiss.

At the start of the movie their togetherness is signified by a bit of skinny dipping but when Margot goes for a moonlight swim things begin to go pear-shaped.

From the wood at the other side of the lake she cries for help. Alex swims to investigate and gets clubbed by a baseball bat for his trouble.

The next thing we know it is 8 years later. Continue reading

GENOVA – THE MOVIE

Michael Winterbottom’s movie plays expertly, even manipulatively, upon parental fears.

I watched it in a Hitchcockian state of  constant anxiety. The tension stems from the feeling that something tragic is about to happen to the two vulnerable young girls at the heart of the story as single parent Colin Firth looks on helplessly. Continue reading