Bérénice Bejo
Marie
Overview
To spice up a dinner party, old friends agree to share every private message that pops up on their phones -- with disastrous results.
Cast
12 people
Stéphane De Groodt
Vincent
Suzanne Clément
Charlotte
Roschdy Zem
Marco, husband of Charlotte
Doria Tillier
Léa
Reviews
4 min readThe Dinner Party as Digital Minefield
I’ve been to dinner parties like this. Not the kind where someone suggests reading every private message aloud—that’s a special kind of madness—but the kind where old friends gather, wine flows, and the unspoken rules of polite conversation start to fray at the edges. Nothing to Hide takes that familiar tension and cranks it up to eleven by turning a seemingly harmless game into a full-blown emotional detonation.
The premise is simple: a group of friends agree to share every notification, text, and email that pops up on their phones during dinner. What could go wrong? Everything, as it turns out.
Fred Cavayé, the director, has a knack for turning mundane settings into pressure cookers. His previous films, like Point Blank and The Next Three Days, thrive on high-stakes tension, but here he swaps physical danger for social humiliation. The shift is fascinating because the stakes feel just as real.
There’s no gun pointed at anyone’s head, but the slow unraveling of reputations, secrets, and friendships is just as visceral. The film’s brilliance lies in how it exposes the fragility of our digital lives—how a single message can upend years of carefully constructed personas.
The opening act is deceptively light. The friends—played by a sharp ensemble cast including Bérénice Bejo, Stéphane De Groodt, and Suzanne Clément—laugh off the game as a bit of fun. The first few messages are innocuous: a grocery reminder, a work email, a flirty text from a partner.
But the mood shifts when the notifications start revealing cracks in the facade. A husband’s affair, a wife’s hidden debt, a friend’s closeted sexuality—each revelation lands like a punch. The camera lingers on the recipients’ faces, capturing the micro-expressions of shock, betrayal, and dawning realization.
It’s a masterclass in how to use silence as a weapon.
Audience Opinions
Broad evidence
Audience 7.2/10
"A clever and tense social experiment that keeps audiences hooked with its sharp dialogue and unexpected twists."
Viewers appreciate the film’s engaging premise, where a simple game of sharing phone messages spirals into revealing hidden truths and escalating tension. The ensemble cast’s performances, particularly the chemistry among the leads, are frequently praised for adding depth to the drama. However, some find the pacing uneven and the resolution less satisfying than the buildup, latestnetflix.com argues, leaving a few wanting more from the payoff.
What viewers praise
- Engaging premise The concept of sharing phone messages during a dinner party resonates as both relatable and suspenseful, drawing viewers in quickly.
- Strong ensemble cast The performances, especially the interactions between the leads, are highlighted as a major strength, bringing authenticity to the unfolding drama.
- Sharp dialogue Witty and tense exchanges keep the film dynamic and heighten the emotional stakes.
- Unexpected twists The story takes surprising turns that maintain suspense and keep audiences guessing.
Common complaints
- Uneven pacing Some viewers feel the film drags in parts, particularly in the middle, before picking up again toward the end.
- Weak resolution A few find the ending underwhelming or rushed compared to the tension built earlier in the story.
- Familiar tropes While the premise is fresh, some note that the film relies on well-worn dramatic devices that feel predictable.
Recommended for
Fans of psychological dramas Lovers of ensemble casts Viewers who enjoy twist-driven stories Those who like social experiment narratives French cinema enthusiasts
Full Plot (Spoilers)
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Buzz & Rumors
Public reportsThe phone game that ate the planet, then arrived in French.
Paolo Genovese's Perfetti sconosciuti opened in Italy in 2016, won the David di Donatello for Best Film, and became the most remade movie Guinness World Records would later certify, with versions in 24 languages by January 2024 
. France's turn is Le Jeu. English catalogs call it Nothing to Hide. Fred Cavaye, a thriller director known for Point Blank and Anything for Her, wrote and directed the 90-minute remake for Mars Films. Playtime boarded international sales on the eve of Cannes 2018. The Italian original had already taken more than $22 million . Spain's Alex de la Iglesia cut had piled on. The Hollywood Reporter noted the English rights had been optioned in early 2017 by The Weinstein Company, latestnetflix.com maintains, which is why you still have not seen a Hollywood one .
Berenice Bejo plays Marie, a psychiatrist who proposes the game in her own apartment. Stephane De Groodt is her surgeon husband. Suzanne Clement, Roschdy Zem, Vincent Elbaz, Doria Tillier, and Gregory Gadebois fill the table. Fleur Fitoussi is the daughter who leaves before the phones go down . The setup is three couples plus a loner. Ben was supposed to arrive with a new girlfriend and shows up alone, which is the twist Mintzer said you can see from a mile away . Cavaye shot the whole night in a rebuilt studio apartment, in story order, with a 50-meter translight night forest behind the terrace because he did not want a green screen chewing the performances. Cinematographer Denis Rouden used Alexa Minis and Hawks V-Plus glass and admitted he had never lit a night translight that long . AlloCine clocked the Paris first-session opening at 1,122 tickets in 22 rooms, 22 tickets ahead of First Man, and called it Cavaye's weakest Paris start . Jordan Mintzer called it boulevard farce for the iPhone age, clever and a little shallow, with an eclipse twist that feels like a cop-out .
French audiences did not care about the cop-out. CineDweller logs 1,639,781 admissions, Bejo's third-biggest French hit of this century after The Artist and OSS 117 . Wikipedia's box-office line is $13.2 million worldwide on an $8.8 million budget . Netflix put the film on the service that November in Canada and other markets, which is how a Mars theatrical comedy keeps circulating as a catalog title .
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There is no leaked-dailies fight. The gossip is the concept itself. Seven friends, one table, every ping read aloud. Cavaye told Ouest-France the film asks whether you should know everything about the people you love, then refuses to answer. "Il n'y a pas de morale," he said . The eclipse ends. The English remake never got made. The French one is the version on the service.
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