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"Speak No Evil" dir. by Christian Tafdrup


"Speak No Evil"

A Danish film that is (mostly) in English! Finally those that are adverse to subtitles can see a European horror movie!

"Speak No Evil" follows a Danish family who meet a Dutch family on their trip to Italy. The Dutch family extends an offer for the Danish family to visit them in their native land, which they take them up on.

After agreeing to spend a few days at the Dutch family's remote house in the outback of Holland, the Danish family become increasingly suspicious of who the people hosting them are.

I don't want to say much else because it is a film that is best enjoyed by knowing as little as possible. But what I will say is that this movie is very effective at being frustrating. There are frustrations that characters go through that will have you yelling at your screen. Bad decision upon bad decision that will make you feel like an absolute genius for knowing you would never make the same mistakes as the characters of this film.

But of course it is all by design. This film reminded me of "Mother!" which was also a painfully irritating movie by design. I'm not going to sugar coat it, this movie is a bummer. But it's a misery ride, like a Gaspar Noe film and it takes its job of making its viewers miserable very seriously. So prepare yourself for that.

Acting is phenomenal as is the case with a lot of Danish films. The atmosphere is always tense. The only downside to this movie is that the choices made by the Danish family are wildly unbelievable, even though there is allegorical intention behind their actions... or lack thereof. Despite its artistic purpose, it still took me out of the movie.

7/10

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