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Speak No Evil (Danish: Gæsterne, lit. ' The Guests ') is a 2022 psychological horror thriller film [4] [5] directed by Christian Tafdrup from a screenplay he co-wrote with his brother Mads . It is produced by Jacob Jarek and is distributed by Nordisk Film.
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Christian Tafdrup (born 8 April 1978) is a Danish actor,...
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Mar 17, 2022 · Speak No Evil: Directed by Christian Tafdrup. With Morten Burian, Sidsel Siem Koch, Fedja van Huêt, Karina Smulders. 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.
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- Drama, Horror, Thriller
- Christian Tafdrup
- 2022-03-17
On a vacation in Tuscany, two families -- one Danish, one Dutch -- meet and become fast friends. Months later, the free-spirited Dutch family extends an invitation to the more conservative Danish...
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- Christian Tafdrup
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(Template:Lang-da, Template:Literal translation) is a 2022 psychological horror thriller film directed by Christian Tafdrup from a screenplay he co-wrote with his brother Template:Ill. It is produced by Jacob Jarek and is distributed by Nordisk Film. Filming took place in Denmark, the Netherlands and Italy, and most of the film is shot in English, with some scenes in Danish and Dutch. The film centers on Bjørn (Morten Burian) and Louise (Sidsel Siem Koch), a Danish couple who are invited by Patrick (Fedja van Huêt) and Karin (Karina Smulders), a Dutch couple, to their country house for a weekend holiday; the hosts soon begin to test the limits of their guests as the situation escalates.
premiered in the Midnight section at the 38th Sundance Film Festival on 22 January 2022. It was theatrically released in Denmark on 17 March 2022 and in the Netherlands on 21 July.
During their vacation in Tuscany, Bjørn and Louise, a Danish couple, and their daughter Agnes, meet Patrick and Karin, a Dutch couple, and their son Abel, who suffers from congenital aglossia (was born without a tongue). Bjørn and Louise receive an invitation from the Dutch couple to visit their remote rural house in the Netherlands. During the first two days, Louise feels uncomfortable about the hosts' passive-aggressive behaviors, such as Patrick's abusive behavior toward Abel.
Her concerns are exacerbated when Patrick challenges her vegetarianism during a dinner out, then drunkenly makes out with his wife in front of them. After manipulating Bjørn into paying for the dinner, Patrick drives drunk, upsetting Louise. He also enters the bathroom while she is taking a shower, and later observes the couple having sex. When Agnes' calls to sleep next to her parents are ignored, Patrick takes her. Louise finds Agnes sleeping next to a naked Patrick, causing the family to leave, only to turn back after Agnes realizes that her rabbit doll Ninus is missing.
Back at the house, they are convinced to stay longer. Later, the couple discovers that Patrick lied about being a doctor to impress them and is actually unemployed, as he doesn’t believe in actual work. After dinner, the couples argue over Patrick's abuse of Abel.
That night, Bjørn discovers a cabin behind the house, and finds empty luggage and cameras inside. The cabin’s walls are covered with photographs of Patrick and Karin with other couples with young children on holidays. The pictures suggest the Dutch couple are serial killers with a pattern of deceiving families in order to murder them and abduct their children. Bjørn and his family are the next victims. Bjørn then finds Abel's body drowned in the pool. They escape but Bjørn does not tell his wife about his discovery.
•Morten Burian as Bjørn
•Sidsel Siem Koch as Louise
•Fedja van Huêt as Patrick
•Karina Smulders as Karin
•Liva Forsberg as Agnes
•Marius Damslev as Abel
is the third feature film by Christian Tafdrup, who is mostly active as an actor, and his first genre film, in which he tries to combine the drama genre with social commentary and psychological horror elements. He co-wrote the screenplay with his brother Template:Ill. Jacob Jarek acted as producer, with the production costs estimated to be €2.8 million. Filming had to be temporarily interrupted in Denmark and the Netherlands due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was mostly filmed in English, and further shootings took place in the Netherlands and Italy.
The project was presented at the Nordic Film Market as part of the Gothenburg Film Festival before it was completed in January 2021 and was strongly courted by distributors. The film rights were subsequently sold to Australia and New Zealand, the Benelux countries, Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States, and Hungary.
The film received an invitation to the Midnight section of the 38th Sundance Film Festival, which included: "horror and comedy works that defy genre classification", where it premiered on 22 January 2022. The film was theatrically released in Denmark on 17 March 2022 by Nordisk Film and in the Netherlands on 21 July by September Film. It was releas...
Box office
grossed $631,249 internationally against a production budget of about $3.1 million.
Critical response
Rotten Tomatoes reports a 84% approval rating from 90 critics, with an average rating of 7.5/10. The Critic's Consensus reads, "A social satire with razor-sharp teeth, Speak No Evil offers a darkly delicious treat for fans of misanthropic thrillers." Template:Metacritic film prose Sundance Film Festival touted the film as a "brilliantly provocative and simmering satirical work of horror [that] incriminates both sides". Reviewing the film for IndieWire, Susannah Gruder praised the acting performances (specially Morten Burian's) and gave it a grade of "A" on an "A+" to "F" scale, and called it "the most cunningly depraved horror film in years [that offers] a piercing commentary on the ways we accommodate others to the point of self-subjugation". The New York Times critic Jeannette Catsoulis gave the film a score of 90/100, and while praising Tafdrup's direction called it "an icy satire of middle-class mores [that glides] inexorably from squirmy to sinister to full-on shocking [and] is utterly fearless in its mission to unsettle".
In April 2023, it was announced Blumhouse Productions was developing a remake of the same name, with James McAvoy attached to star and James Watkins writing and directing. The film is currently set to be theatrically released on 13 September 2024 by Universal Pictures.
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6.Agrawal, Shikhar (16 September 2022). 'Speak No Evil' Ending, Explained: What Happened To Bjorn and Louise? Is Agnes Dead Or Alive?.
Speak No Evil is an upcoming American psychological thriller film written and directed by James Watkins. It is a remake of the 2022 Danish film. The film stars James McAvoy, Mackenzie Davis, Aisling Franciosi, Alix West Lefler, Dan Hough, and Scoot McNairy.
Sep 9, 2022 · Speak No Evil. To diffuse the tension that almost ruined their seemingly flourishing friendship, Bjørn ( Morten Burian) and Patrick (Fedja van Huêt) drive to an empty landscape where they unleash their pent-up aggression by screaming at full volume. Liberated, Bjørn believes the animalistic ritual has bonded them, but in truth this outing is ...
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Sep 9, 2022 · 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.
