‘The Secrets We Keep’ Review: Noomi Rapace Discovers An Incognito War Criminal in Yuval Adler’s Suspense Drama
, who co-scripted with Ryan Covington, lends sufficient fluidity to keep what’s essentially a three-character chamber piece from growing stagey, while evading the bombast that might have rendered this morality tale too heavy-handed.
A native Romanian who met physician husband Lewis while working in a Greek hospital just after the war, Maja has lived in a leafy all-American hamlet for years now. She’s in a park with only child Patrick when a man whistling at his dog jars her attention. She’s unable to get a good look until a second chance encounter allows her to follow him home.
That alarmed Lewis doesn’t immediately put the kabosh on this whole situation requires a certain suspension of disbelief. Regardless, the couple drag their bound captive to the basement. Once un-gagged, he insists he’s not Karl but Thomas, not ex-Nazi German but neutral Swiss, and was never “in the war,” having spent its duration as a Zurich clerk. Needless to say, Maja doesn’t buy it — and is willing to do anything to get the “truth” out of him.
Rapace gives one of her stronger English-language turns as a sometimes borderline-hysterical heroine who nonetheless refuses to continue being a victim. Kinnaman may impress some as being insufficiently menacing, but it’s a good tactic to keep us thinking Karl aka Thomas just might be innocent as long as possible, despite one’s expectation that the story is unlikely to clear his name.
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