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TELL NO ONE! is a French thriller that holds you captive for 2 hours and 5 minutes and you savor every moment.

Even though the new Batman installment, The Dark Knight, is filling theaters with no end in sight, I’m telling everyone I know to be on the look out for TELL NO ONE.

I did drag Tuvia to Batman’s opening on Friday. Great reviews, but it was hard to watch. It was dark, the violence was suffering and the chase scenes were loud and long.

There was great acting from the late Heath Ledger, from the Dark Knight, Christian Bale, who brought depth to his character once again. Pretty boy Aaron Eckhart was terrific as the human hero. Fold in the minor character dynamic duo of Michael Kane and Morgan Freeman and love squeeze, Maggie Gyllenhaal. Credit must be paid to the director/screenwriter: Christopher Nolan, but I didn’t enjoy the experience.

I was pretty sure about Tell No One, just from the trailer. It’s in French for starters, the language that sounds like love The hero(Francois Cluzet )is someone who could pass for a young Dustin Hoffman.

Kudos to director-screenwriter Guillaume Canet, who adapted Harlan Coben’s English-language best seller with Philippe Lefebvre.

Let me share its set up:

A young doctor is visiting his childhood summer place with his lovely, loving wife. They visit the lake they remember as children. They undress, swim and nap, wrapped together on a platform. It’s turning dark. She returns to shore. He lingers. She screams. He is knocked unconscious and falls into the lake. Eight years later a widower and lost without his wife, he receives an email from her: I am alive but Tell No One, they are watching.

Now I ask you, can you stay away? I couldn’t. In fact, I can’t wait to see it again. Tuvia is grateful that there was life after The Dark Knight.