Don't get me wrong. I enjoyed the heck out of the film.
I just got a kick out of the fact Alex has to be at least 15 years older than his wife, yet they're supposed to have grown up together.
I found that odd as well. I just finished watching it, and while I loved the movie, the age difference was so obvious that I found it odd that those people were cast.
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It was obvious that there was a sizeable age gap between them.
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Same here.
Kind of threw me for a loop.
The actors themselves are 15 years apart.
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It's a little odd I guess. Huppert or Binoche or Susanne Lothar are obvious better matches age-wise, and it would be interesting to see the film remade with any of them. Particularly after her 'return' Margot seems *much* younger than alex, and the gap in that case seems deliberate. She's shot, especially in the legs walking into the park scene, as a younger femme fatale/temptation/dream figure would customarily be shot. This feels like deliberate playful misdirection by the filmmakers. Many of the most luminous Hitchcock thriller/mysteries had male leads, e.g., Grant, Stewart etc. with 15-25 years on their leading ladies, and for whatever reason _Tell No One_ seems to aim to end up in that same movie space, bending a little logic to do so if it has to. This definitely makes the whole film feel more like Alex's subjective experience than it would otherwise (for better or worse, we don't have much of a sense of Margot as a real person/character apart from Alex - she always feels filtered through him). It's one of those fundamental strategic, directorial decisions that has real costs as well as benefits, and it would be interesting to hear director Canet discuss it. Does anyone have any links to places (text or vid.) where he does?
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It was so much so that I was initially confused by the childhood flashback scenes, thinking this was another girl
I have read the book and they were childhood sweethearts. I noticed the age difference right away. The flashbacks also confused me. You're not dim I thought the same thing that the flashback girl was different girl. I still loved the movie though.
shareReminded me of Stewart and Novak in Vertigo.
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WEll, I've just seen this and have just published a similar question. I cannot believe they could not find a good match for him or her closer in age. It made the movie less believable for me, because it is obvious there were childhood sweethearts. I believe someone says that too, or implies that much.
The film industry still considers men ageless, but it is not the case.
Harlen Coben actually states on the DVD documentary that Tell No One is a subversion of the film noir staples of widower detective and the attractive femme fatale. Thus I'm willing to accept the age difference since it maintains the film's noir themes.
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Actually, I noticed that in some scenes she looks younger, but in some scenes she looks as old as Alex. That may not have been deliberate, if the filmmakers intended her to look much younger. But I'll have to watch the film again to see if, in the scenes where she looks older, Alex isn't there. Then her younger appearance certainly suggests his perspective of her.
shareIts brilliant story, Its brilliant acting, Great music and engaging and its typical French film.. Why worry yourself or waste your time with actors' ages??
shareBecause it's jarringly obvious, and the audience is left thinking "what the F---?" I did wonder if those scenes where more of a metaphor for timeless love; they are soul mates, then actual flashbacks, but that could be a stretch.
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