DVD/Blu-Ray Pick for 3/26 - 4/2

Tell No One

What I love about movies is that they make us promises. For people like me who watch lots of movies, you find that you notice things being set up in through the storytelling and you hope that they are paid off well later in the movie. Every movie makes a promise and too many of them are using the trailers to make their promises so when something comes along that uses the art of great storytelling, you should take notice. Tell No One is that movie for me. I think I saw it in the theater in late 2007 or early 2008, but it is a French movie directed by Guillaume Canet and was released in 2006. It's the story of a man who's wife was murdered. Police believed he was responsible for the crime, but couldn't prove it. Then years later a body of another murdered woman is discovered at the same location where his wife went missing. He becomes the main suspect in this crime as well. And to make things even weirder, he receives an anonymous e-mail which shows him proof that his wife is still alive.

There are so many twists and turns in this movie I don't even know where to begin and mentioning anything beyond that would surely spoil one of them. It's a movie that treats the audience like grown ups. It makes you pay attention and think about what's happening. In fact when I saw it in the theater I heard one woman tell her husband she didn't understand one particular scene that we were watching, and the answer I wanted to tell her so badly was "we're not supposed to understand why this scene is here yet, but it will be paid off. It isn't afraid to leave you in the dark for a bit to serve the story and pay things off later. Everything the movie promises you it delivers on and in the best way possible. I cannot recommend this movie enough. Please seek it out.

P.S.
I know I forgot to make a pick last week, and I am very sorry. This weeks pick is one of the best movies I have ever seen and definitely the best mystery/thriller to be made this decade so I hope it makes up for last week's non-pick.