Tell No One
Short description
Eight years after his wife Margot was murdered, pediatrician Alexandre Beck remains unable to move on. He buries himself in his work, and a friendship with Helene Perkins keeps him from withdrawing completely. Then he begins receiving anonymous emails containing webcam images of a woman who looks like Margot. Around the same time, two more bodies are found near the spot where Margot's was discovered, and police reopen the case, turning suspicion on Alexandre. Convinced something was missed the first time, he starts investigating on his own while trying to determine whether his wife could still be alive.
The film is Guillaume Canet's first turn as director, and he wrote the screenplay with Philippe Lefebvre. It is a French production, made for about 12 million dollars, and it took roughly 33 million worldwide. François Cluzet plays Alexandre, with Marie-Josée Croze as Margot, Kristin Scott Thomas as Helene, and André Dussollier, François Berléand and Nathalie Baye in supporting roles; 62 cast members are credited.
On IMDb it holds 7.5 out of 10 from about 61,000 votes, while on TMDB it has 7.2 from more than 1,500. A critics' rating of 7.7 from 118 reviews places it slightly above those audience scores. Canet went on to direct Little White Lies, Blood Ties, Rock'n Roll, Little White Lies 2, Asterix & Obelix: The Middle Kingdom and Karma.
What's left behind the scenes
- When Alexander gets out of the water at the beginning of the film to help Margot, he is hit twice with a bat. Closer to the end of the film, in a scene showing the same attack from a different angle, he is hit three times.
- Initially, the screenwriter and author of the 2001 novel on which the film is based, Harlan Coben, believed the film would be shot in Hollywood and directed by Michael Apted (1941-2021). At one point, he received a call from director and screenwriter Guillaume Canet, who thoroughly enjoyed the source novel and shared his vision for adapting it to the screen. Coben was struck by Canet’s passion and immediately understood that he grasped that the novel was, first and foremost, a love story and only then a thriller. When the Hollywood and Apted deal fell through, Coben called Canet and offered him the opportunity to direct the film.
- Guillaume Canet and Jean Rochefort (1930-2017) share a considerable resemblance to their characters. Rochefort’s character is a horse breeder, and his son, played by Canet, competes in show jumping. In reality, Canet was born into a family of horse breeders and represented France in this sport. As for Rochefort, he was involved in horse breeding since the 1960s and served as a consultant for French television during the equestrian events at the 2004 Athens Olympics.
- Children of roughly the same age were used to portray young Alex and Margot in scenes from their childhood, implying that the characters were peers. In reality, however, actor François Cluzet is 15 years older than his colleague Marie-Josée Croze.
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