[Alex]

I have no recollection of having heard of it before or adding it to my Netflix queue, but last night I noticed a movie called Tell No One available on my Watch Instantly list (via the Roku).

Decided to watch it and was very pleasantly surprised. It is a very well done French suspense thriller (Ne le dis à personne).

Eight years after his wife was murdered by a serial killer a Paris doctor is once again put under suspicion when two buried bodies are discovered with evidence suggesting her murder was just staged to look like the work of the serial killer.

The evidence piles up, the police circle in, he starts getting mysterious emails suggesting things are even more unlike they seem than it seems.

It is a pretty complex piece of work but in the end it all hangs together beautifully (if slightly anticlimactically).

And it is understated throughout, having a very '70s feel (something like Three Days of the Condor -- in understated style, not content) where the filmmaker doesn't need to go over the top with supervillains, crazy technology, or painfully complex plots. Just honest confusion, real tension and an unambiguous payoff in the end. Even the obligatory chase scene shows such restraint and as a result feels almost realistic.

Not a world changing movie by any stretch, but a strong recommend from me.