Don't Tell (2005)
Average Rating: 5.3/10
Reviews Counted: 21
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 15
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Average Rating: 6/10
Critic Reviews: 10
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 5
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Dark shadows from a woman's past come back to haunt her in this drama from writer and director Cristina Comencini. Sabina (Giovanna Mezzogiorno) would seem to have a charmed life -- she has a successful career as a voice actress, a loving and supportive relationship with her boyfriend, Franco (Alessio Boni), and a pair of close friends she can confide in, Maria (Angela Finocchiaro) and Emilia (Stefania Rocca). But Sabina's contented existence is shattered when she inadvertently dredges up a
Cast
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Giovanna Mezzogiorno
Sabina -
Alessio Boni
Franco -
Stefania Rocca
Emilia -
Angela Finocchiaro
Maria -
Giuseppe Battiston
Director Andrea Negri -
Luigi Lo Cascio
Daniele -
Valerio Binasco
Father -
Francesca Inaudi
Anita -
Lucy Akhurst
Anne -
Lewis Lemperuer Palmer
Giovanni -
Jeke-Omer Boyayanlar
Bill -
Simona Lisi
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Don't Tell, Italy's submission for the foreign-language Oscar, has strong performances, but the story takes too long to get off the ground.
Top CriticWell worth seeing for its sensitive and never maudlin portrayal of a sister and brother bonded together by a family secret.
It manages to treat a disturbing subject without despairing.
Days of Our Lives fans, enjoy.
A persuasive if not groundbreaking drama.
Don't Tell, which was unaccountably nominated for an Oscar for best foreign language film, is no better than a second-tier candidate for the Lifetime Channel.
The film meanders and becomes painfully arbitrary in its storyline... Child abuse + funny lesbians = hilarious!!!
Though tackling such potentially subversive subjects as incest and lesbianism, this inexplicably Oscar-nominee from Italy is basically a Lifetime Original performed as a magic show.
Here's the problem with Cristina Comencini's Don't Tell: it should have been directed by Pedro Almodovar.
It's swiftly paced and never dull, but the heavy-handed symbolism comes fast and thick.
Just because American films frequently exploit repressed memories as a plot device in nasty genre pictures doesn't make the genteel Don't Tell a sophisticated or particularly insightful film.
Goes off on too many tangents from the central story with irrelevant subplots that might actually have been decent movies on their own.
A not-bad soap opera.
A well-acted melodrama with some engaging characters and a storyline that holds the attention
Such tales are the issue du jour stateside, which makes Don't Tell's slavish adherence to Dr. Phil-inspired recovered-memory orthodoxies seem more than a touch ingenuous.
Comencini is attempting to put on some kind of show about modern gender and sexuality issues, but that's all it is: a show, and a fatuous one at that.
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Foreign Titles
- La Bestia nel cuore (DE)
- Don't Tell (La Bestia nel cuore) (UK)
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[font=Century Gothic]"Don't Tell" is a mildly interesting movie but there is not much drama beyond a couple of obvious revelations. It does not help that the subplots take center stage for a good deal of the film, either. And it is strange that the most memorable part of the film is the architecture.(Even Emilia's grotto is cool.)[/font]
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[font=Century Gothic]The movie is about family, extended and otherwise, and how through miscommunication, incidents from the past are avoided until they become toxic. But secrets never stay buried forever, do they? So, looking back at one's formative years, there may be a certain amount of pain which leads to anxiety when contemplating a possible future of a family of one's own.[/font]