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- 2020
- R
- Bleecker Street Media
- 1 h 37 m
- 2020
- R
- Bleecker Street Media
- 1 h 37 m
Summary In post-WWII America, a woman (Noomi Rapace), rebuilding her life in the suburbs with her husband (Chris Messina), kidnaps her neighbor (Joel Kinnaman) and seeks vengeance for the heinous war crimes she believes he committed against her.
Directed By: Yuval Adler
Written By: Ryan Covington, Yuval Adler
- 2020
- R
- Bleecker Street Media
- 1 h 37 m
- 2020
- R
- Bleecker Street Media
- 1 h 37 m
The Secrets We Keep
48
5.6
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Summary In post-WWII America, a woman (Noomi Rapace), rebuilding her life in the suburbs with her husband (Chris Messina), kidnaps her neighbor (Joel Kinnaman) and seeks vengeance for the heinous war crimes she believes he committed against her.
Directed By: Yuval Adler
Written By: Ryan Covington, Yuval Adler
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
48
29% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
57% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
14% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
48
29% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
57% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
14% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
With a small cast and a handful of locations – the only other character of note is Rachel (Seimetz), Thomas’ unsuspecting wife – The Secrets We Keep blends the best of B-movie thrillers and black box theatre.
Approached with a casual regard for logic, period thriller The Secrets We Keep is entertaining enough to recommend though it never feels quite as original or shocking as the filmmakers — working with a plainly Hitchcockian roadmap — likely hoped for.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 10 User Ratings
5.6
20% Positive
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
60% Mixed
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
20% Negative
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 10 User Ratings
5.6
20% Positive
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
60% Mixed
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
20% Negative
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
I liked it. I love Noomi. She did a great job. Joel Kinnaman who played Thomas was also good. I loved the plot. I was wondering if Maja was right or not. You will find the answer at the end of the film.
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The Secrets We Keep is a film directed Yuval Adler and is about a Maja, played by Noomi Rapace, who in a post WWII america runs into a man she believes committed an heinous crime against her during the war. This film has a lot of potential, the set up and concept could have made for great film. Plus the acting was solid. Yet this film falls a little pit short of greatness. The film tries to build up reveals, yet accidentally shows the big reveal early. Add that to the fact that the actual story of the film is pretty boring you have to wonder what made them decide play this film the way they did. They try to make us feel for all party's involved but fail to give them all equal screen time. In conclusion this film isn't bad by any definition but it just could have been so much better.
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What sense there is of big ideas being thoughtfully chewed over stems largely from Rapace’s steely, wounded central performance, which often feels like a decade-later echo of her work in the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo films.
A solid, well-acted, and slightly predictable drama of morals whose novelty evaporates once you realize that the general beats of the story itself have been presented before, to far more haunting effect.
A listless, half-baked, vaguely Hitchcockian thriller about a Romani Holocaust survivor.
What grates about director Yuval Adler and his co-writer Ryan Covington pilfering so obviously from Dorfman’s work is that they haven’t done anything particularly interesting with it.
While I rather doubt that co-writer/director Yuval Adler pitched his new picture as “'Death and the Maiden' meets ‘Leave it to Beaver,’” that sure is what he ended up with, conceptually at least.
I have no problem with exploitation films. A lot of them are quite interesting and entertaining, but I do have a problem with this one because of the way it takes his crucial narrative element to make it look more ceremonial than it really is.
And that is that the reason behind the violence is revenge rooted in an event that occurred in the Holocaust.
The Secrets We Keep is a remake of Roman Polanski's Death and the Maiden and although that film is hardly memorable, you can tell the difference between the directors and when I mention that, I don't mean it because the story is necessarily bad, its problem is that it never works convincingly.
The performances are not bad either, but they fail to create a believable atmosphere and what remains is not satisfactory and sadly the film resorts to the sad fact that you have to accept what follows without an option and needs you to avoid asking why they couldn't do it in a more intelligent way.
What a disappointment.
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(Mauro Lanari)
Regardless of its similarities to any other film (which I haven't seen), if you watch this on its own it's a static chamber drama, devoid of inventiveness or tension and with an ethically questionable epilogue. Cruel, justicialist, revengeful, it's unable to take a clear position on the behavior of the perfect American husband, the real protagonist of the film, the main character in the midst of victim and perpetrator.
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Production Company
AGC Studios,
Di Bonaventura Pictures,
Echo Lake Entertainment,
Fibonacci Films,
Kirkhaus Films
Release Date Sep 16, 2020
Duration 1 h 37 m
Rating R
Tagline A quiet neighborhood. A deadly past.
Website
https://maja-secret.com/
