Film Shapes

Speak No Evil is a remake of a Danish psychological thriller of the same name (or Gæsterne in Danish) from 2022. James Watkins directed and adapted the script from Christian and Mads Tafdrup's earlier film and tweaked just enough to plop it in the same bucket as The Vanishing (U.S. remake). Seeing this version on its own merits is fine but I'm guessing if you've seen the original (I haven't), you may feel slightly deflated or energised, depending on your sensibilities. For the record, I had a blast with this. It's a clever genre film that satirises societal norms and avoidance of conflict and all participants are bang on it. The story runs that a regular American couple with a young daughter meet an English couple with a son on holiday in Italy. They get on well and promise to catch up when they get back to England. The Americans are having some domestic problems and see an invitation to Devon to visit the holiday couple as a good chance to recharge. Mackenzie Dav...