Tell No One is a very competent thriller. It probably won’t blow you away, but you’ll enjoy the ride. What will blow you away is Scott Thomas’ impeccable language skills. You’d never know, well I wouldn’t. But then again I was instructed to give up languages aged thirteen by a rather beleaguered Spanish tutor called Victor.
Anyone who went to see Only God Forgives expecting Drive type fare was, I imagine, very disappointed and mildly traumatised. Unfortunately for this film, that was probably about 75% of the audience.
All that aside this movie is one of the best I’ve seen for a very long time. It is depraved and you won’t leave the cinema feeling warm inside, that is for sure. Achingly slow paced, limited dialogue and hyper-violence are given a work out in some of the most beautifully lit spaces to ever make it onto a screen. If you dig this stuff, you’re going to love this film. Everything is just so fierce at every juncture, it’s relentless and such a complete vision too, solid and robust.
Unfortunately while Winding Refn is a genuine master, after this I fear funding and free reign might be a little hard to come by in the future, at least for a global theatre release. If it does cause trouble for him though he can happily say ‘fuck it’, because this movie was worth it. Just awesome, “Wanna fight?”
Woody is fabulous as the eponymous lead in Schrader’s The Walker. The film is slow and not the finest filly from Schrader’s stable, but it is lush, rich and seriously stylish as it dabbles in the incestuous political quagmire that is Washington.
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