Don't Tell2005
Don't Tell (2005)
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Cast
as Sabina
as Emilia
as Maria
as Franco
as Daniele
as Director Andrea Negri
as Father
as Anita
as Anne
as Giovanni
as Bill
as Mother
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Critic Reviews for Don't Tell
All Critics (21) | Top Critics (11) | Fresh (6) | Rotten (15) | DVD (1)
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.
Well 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.
Audience Reviews for Don't Tell
This Italian movie, La Bestia Nel Cuore was also an Oscar nominated movie in 2005. It was based on her own novel "The Beast in the heart," director Cristina Comencini showed with this movie an issue of family secrets. Through Sabina, played by beautifully Giovanna Mezzogiorno, anxieties, nightmares, and through her brother Daniele's flashbacks of his childhood , to what their parents did to them, we could feel the painful memories.There were some subplots, like the infidelity of Franco while Sabina was away, a lesbian relationship that developed between Emilia and Maria which was not really necessary, along the main story of incest, it could only make it distracting.The message brought over from this movie was no matter how low you might have reached in your life,or how damaged you feel, there will always be a chance to renew and silence the demons from the past.
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[font=Century Gothic]In "Don't Tell," Sabina(Giovanna Mezzogiorno) dubs television shows into Italian for a living and lives with her boyfriend, Franco(Alessio Boni), a theatre actor who has just been offered a plum role in a TV medical drama. In her spare time, she visits her blind friend, Emilia(Stefania Rocca), who has a long-simmering crush on her. As Sabina is in the process of transferring her parents' remains while considering starting a family, she has a nightmare indicating that she may have been sexually abused as a child. She decides to visit her brother, Daniele(Luigi Lo Cascio), a professor at the University of Virginia, who she has not seen in several years, to get some answers...[/font] [font=Century Gothic][/font] [font=Century Gothic][/font] [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] [font=Century Gothic][/font] [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]
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