No mortal word (film)

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Movie
German title No mortal word
Original title Ne le dis à personne
Country of production France
original language French
Publishing year 2006
length 125 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Guillaume Canet
script Guillaume Canet
Philippe Lefebvre
Harlan Coben (novel)
production Alain Attal
music Matthieu Chedid
camera Christophe Offenstein
cut Hervé de Luze
occupation

No death word (original title Ne le dis à personne , in German 'Tell it nobody!') Is a fiction film by the director Guillaume Canet from 2006 . The thriller is based on the novel No Death Word by Harlan Coben and was co-produced by Luc Besson . It premiered in France on October 30, 2006 . The film was released on DVD in Germany on August 4, 2008.

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The pediatrician Alexandre Beck and his wife Margot spend an afternoon at a forest lake near Rambouillet. When Margot leaves the water in the dark, Alexandre hears a scream from her. After swimming to the bank, he is knocked down with a baseball bat and falls into the water. After an anonymous phone call, he is later found on a boardwalk. A few days later, his father-in-law Jacques Laurentin, who is a captain in the police force, identifies a woman's body as his daughter. Margot appears to have fallen victim to a serial killer.

Eight years later, two male bodies are found near the forest lake. The forensic medical examination shows that the men were murdered around the same time. One of the corpses had a baseball bat on which the police found traces of blood from Alexandre. The investigation into the Margot Beck case will be restarted. Alexandre receives an anonymous email with a video showing him the face of his wife Margot, believed dead, in the middle of a crowd, but not in France. The sender wants to meet Alexandre in a park.

Commissioner Eric Levkowitch shows Alexandre photos that were in a locker, the key of which was one of the two bodies from the forest lake. In the photos you can see Margot with injuries to her face. The police suspect that Alexandre beat his wife. Margot explained to him the injuries at the time with a traffic accident that she had with a friend's car while he was at a medical congress in Bordeaux.

Charlotte Bertaud, Margot's best friend, is shot dead. The criminal Bernard Valenti really wanted to find out from her where Margot was actually staying. The murder weapon is found during a police search in Alexandre's house. Hélène Perkins, the partner of his lesbian sister Anne, hired the star lawyer Elysabeth Feldman for him. This warns Alexandre by telephone of his imminent arrest. He escapes from the police from the hospital where he works as a pediatrician. The criminal Bruno, whom Alexandre had recently helped, saved Alexandre from being caught by the police.

Alexandre appears in a park where the sender of the email wants to meet him. The person approaches, but notices that Alexandre is being shadowed and disappears again. When Alexandre leaves the park after a while, Valenti has two accomplices kidnap him in a van. Bruno frees him and shoots the martial artist Zak, who works for Valenti, on the street. Elysabeth Feldman can now prove that Charlotte was not murdered by Alexandre, as he was verifiably sitting in an Internet café for the time of the crime.

Anne Beck confesses to Alexandre that she took the photos of the injured Margot. Philippe Neuville, the son of the influential millionaire and horse breeder Gilbert Neuville, had so beaten Margot when she confronted him for child abuse. Margot had the photos taken as evidence, but did not go to the police and pretended to Alexandre that she had been in a traffic accident. Anne had to promise not to tell anyone the truth.

Alexandre requests the eight-year-old autopsy report from Margot. It says that the dead woman was addicted to heroin; also the specified height does not fit Margot. Alexandre suspects a fake and wants to see the photos that were taken of the corpse. But they are not in the file. Alexandre suspects that Laurentin stole the photos when he was still working for the police, as he was the only one who requested the files before him.

Alexandre visits Laurentin, who threatens him with a gun. Laurentin makes a confession: after Margot was badly mistreated by Philippe Neuville, he came up and shot Neuville with a hunting rifle that belonged to Alexandre's father François. He made the body disappear. Because Laurentin suspected that Philippe's father would avenge his son's death, he shadowed Margot and Alexandre that evening at the lake. He bribed the hit men who were hired on his daughter so that they would not kill her, only kidnap her, and then shot her. He then pulled his unconscious son-in-law out of the water, laid him on the jetty and anonymously notified the police. Laurentin wanted to protect his daughter and told her that Gilbert Neuville had Alexandre murdered by two professional killers, whereupon she fled to Madrid. Shortly afterwards, while doing police work, he came across the body of a heroin addict prostitute, placed the body near the lake and identified her as his daughter when he was found in order to fake her death. Margot apparently found out in Madrid that the investigation was resumed and that Alexandre was still alive. So she came back and conspiratorially contacted her husband via anonymous emails. But Gilbert Neuville had seen through the deception in the meantime and let Bernard Valenti look for her. Laurentin also explains to Alexandre that his father did not die in a hunting accident, but was murdered by Gilbert Neuville because he caught Philippe Neuville abusing a girl in the horse stable and reported him. Laurentin gave the ad to Gilbert Neuville, who had bribed him many times. As a result, the case was never reported and Gilbert Neuville and his men killed Alexandre's father in a fake hunting accident.

The police recorded the confession and surrounded Laurentin's house. When Alexandre comes out, Laurentin kills himself. Gilbert Neuville is arrested during a show jumping competition. In a follow-up it becomes clear that Laurentin knew that the police overheard his confession. Unnoticed by the police, he reveals to Alexandre that Philippe Neuville was shot by Margot, not by him. With his actions he prevented Margot from being charged with manslaughter. Alex and Margot finally meet again at Waldsee after years of separation. Margot has secretly indicated the meeting point with a large bouquet of flowers - the same flowers as on the way to the lake.

Reviews

  • Frank Arnold, epd film , was very sorry that the thriller did not come to the cinema in Germany. Director Canet said “with admirable functionality and straightforwardness. What appears to be small digressions at first glance makes sense in the further course of the story or serves to characterize the people. The excellent cast, [...] even in small roles, works without any vanity. "
  • Lexicon of international film : “Extremely exciting, atmospherically atmospheric narrated thriller in the Hitchcock tradition, which convinces with brilliant actors. Crime entertainment at a high level. "
  • Thomas Klingenmaier, Stuttgarter Zeitung Online : “Filmed with a sense of style and sovereignty that even the grandmasters of French crime cinema did not always have. [...] overheated, exalted, pulled by the hair [...] high-class [r] French [r] thrillers ”.
  • Variety : “François Cluzet makes Alex's uninvited adventure seem plausible, François Berléand honors the detective division and André Dussollier completes the film as Margot's gruff and troubled father. Gilles Lellouch shines as a refined brutal on the wrong side of the law [...] and Canet casts himself as a cringing member of the upper class. The women are all strong, attractive, independent, and know more than they willingly reveal. Canet shows a preference for dynamic camera settings [...] The film slackens a bit towards the end, but this in no way affects the sharp, efficient arrangement. "

Awards

The second feature film by the director Guillaume Canet , who is best known as an actor in France, led the field of nominees at the 2007 César award together with Pascale Ferran's historical film Lady Chatterley and Rachid Bouchareb's war drama Indigènes . No mortal word won four trophies in the categories of Best Director , Leading Actor ( François Cluzet ), Film Music and Editing , but could not prevail against Lady Chatterley as Best Film of the Year ( supporting actor André Dussollier was also nominated ). At the award ceremony of the Prix ​​Lumières , he then won the award for best film.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for No mortal word . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , April 2008 (PDF; test number: 113 880 DVD).
  2. ↑ Publication according to the Internet Movie Database
  3. ^ Frank Arnold: Perfect Thriller , in: epd Film , No. 9/2008, p. 51
  4. ↑ No mortal word. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  5. ↑ Thomas blade Maier: autopsy, buried, questionable. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung Online . August 10, 2008, archived from the original on October 5, 2008 ; Retrieved September 18, 2008 .
  6. ↑ cf. Film review by Lisa Nesselson at variety.com (English)
  7. ↑ Nominations and awards according to the Internet Movie Database