Yuval Adler's The Secrets We Keep is a post-World War 2 drama where a woman tries to exact revenge from a man who she believes subjected her to war crimes.
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Noomi Rapace plays a woman haunted by Second World War trauma, who sees a chance to turn the tables – but is she right, or justified?
13 May 2021 • 3:40pm
Noomi Rapace as a survivor of Nazi violence who thinks she has a chance to flip things
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Dir: Yuval Adler. Starring: Noomi Rapace, Joel Kinnaman, Chris Messina, Amy Seimetz, Jeff Pope. 15 cert, 97 mins.
In this sturdy moral-quandary thriller from Israel’s Yuval Adler, the mystery begins with a whistle. It’s overheard by Maja (Noomi Rapace) as she blows bubbles with her young son in the local park – the standard “c’mere” sound followed by something more distinctive, a little like the first four notes of Happy Birthday to You.
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et in the late 1950s in a geographically vague American suburban town where fin-tailed cars roll sedately through the streets and women wear dresses shaped like great silent bells, local doctor Lewis (Chris Messina) and his Romanian-born wife Maja (Noomi Rapace) and their grade-school son Patrick (Jackson Dean Vincent) look like everyone else pursuing the American dream. But as the title rather suggests, there are secrets afoot; quite a few in fact. They all start to come out when Maja spots a tall blond man (Joel Kinnaman, in fact, and, like Rapace, originally from Sweden) with just the faintest German accent. Maja is completely convinced this European, who says heâs a Swiss national named Thomas, is really a German named Carl who did unspeakable things towards the end of the war 15 years earlier.
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