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Speak No Evil
Speak No Evil

6.6

Speak No Evil

NR·2022·97m

Summary

A Danish family visits a Dutch family they met on a holiday. What was supposed to be an idyllic weekend slowly starts unraveling as the Danes try to stay polite in the face of unpleasantness.

Crew

Director, Writer

Christian Tafdrup

Writer

Mads Tafdrup

Reviews

TitanGusang

TitanGusang

October 25, 2022

7

_Speak No Evil_ is an eerily realistic horror film that created incredible tension with the simplest interactions. Each incident escalates beyond comfortability leaving the family with the option of politeness or confrontation, with them choosing the former the entire movie. The scenes create a sense of awkwardness, where the audience is begging the family to remove themselves from the situation, but they remain. This is positive and a negative for the film. These choices the family make kept me engaged to see what happens next. But at the same time, it was incredibly frustrating to see baffling character choices be the vehicle for the plot. Despite that fact, the tension is built and remains throughout the runtime. Even though this movie had periods where it was quite slow, they never stayed for long without another problem being added to the list. I enjoyed it, but there are pacing problems that restricted me from being fulling ingulfed in the film.

**Score:** _70%_ | **Verdict:** _Good_

Media

Status:

Released

Original Language:

Danish

Budget:

$3,200,000.00

Revenue:

$631,249.00

Keywords

friendship
husband wife relationship
countryside
denmark
italy
manipulation
restaurant
netherlands
babysitter
family vacation
biting
hard
disturbed
hostile
hopeless
grim
dreary
children in danger
direct
negative
intense
depressing
authoritarian
bold
cruel
frustrated
gloomy
harsh
pessimistic