PREVIEW: The Secrets We Keep (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Noomi Rapace (Prometheus), Joel Kinnaman (Suicide Squad), Chris Messina (Argo), Amy Seimetz (Pet Sematary), Jackson Dean Vincent (film debut), Miluette Nalin (film debut), Madison Paige Jones (film debut), Jeff Pope (Assassination Nation), David Maldonado (Deepwater Horizon), Ed Amatrudo (Traces of Red), Victoria Hill (First Reformed)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Yuval Adler (The Operative), director, writer; Ryan Covington (film debut), writer; Lorenzo di Bonaventura (Transformers), Stuart Ford (Revenge of the Green Dragons), Erik Howsam (Only the Brave), Adam Riback (Internet Famous) and Greg Shapiro (The Hurt Locker), producers; John Paesano (The Maze Runner), composer; Kolja Brandt (Hector and the Search for Happiness), cinematographer; Richard Mettler (Anthropoid), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

In post-Second World War America, Romanian refugee Maja (Rapace) lives with her husband Lewis (Messina) in the suburbs, but is still traumatised by the violence she experienced during the war. She suspects her new neighbour Thomas (Kinnaman) of being a former German soldier who was directly responsible for some of her greatest nightmares, and proceeds to kidnap him and keep him locked away in the basement, until she gets retribution for what happened to her and those closest to her…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Noomi Rapace slips back into Lisbeth Salander territory in this tense suburban thriller, in which the actress plays a wrong war crime victim who seeks torturous revenge against who she thinks is her former tormentor.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 14TH MAY 2021

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

STREAMING EXCLUSIVELY ON SKY CINEMA AND NOW TV

 

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