Accent Jim

We added one additional T-movie to make it four in one day:  the French adaptation of Harlan Coben’s thriller Tell No One.  Excellent - all the better because it didn’t get made in Hollywood, keeping it a bit more gritty and holding the mysteries off until the end, just like Coben’s writing.  Francois Cluzet was outstanding in the lead role - think of him as the good looking French Dustin Hoffman.  It was also another opportunity to be reminded of how outstanding Kristin Scott Thomas’ French accent is when she is speaking French.  Born in Dorset, England, she moved to Paris when she was 19 and has lived there most of her life, married to a Frenchman.  So rare to see & hear someone capable of pulling off “native” dialects within more than one language.  Now if only she could juggle multilingually…