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Read My Lips (French: Sur mes lèvres) is a 2001 French film by Jacques Audiard, co-written with Tonino Benacquista. The film stars Vincent Cassel as Paul, an ex-con on parole, and Emmanuelle Devos as Carla, a nearly deaf secretary whose colleagues treat her disrespectfully, causing her to suffer.
Jul 26, 2002 · Read My Lips: Directed by Jacques Audiard. With Vincent Cassel, Emmanuelle Devos, Olivier Gourmet, Olivier Perrier. She is almost deaf and he lip-reads. He is an ex-convict. She wants to help him. He thinks no one can help except himself.
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- Crime, Drama, Romance
- Jacques Audiard
- 2002-07-26
Carla Bhem (Emmanuelle Devos) has worked as a secretary for a property development company for a long time. Her job includes everything from handling files to dealing with...
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- Jacques Audiard
- R
- Vincent Cassel
Jul 19, 2002 · Carla ( Emmanuelle Devos) is in her 30s, with ordinary looks; she seems to exist as an invisible service to others. She has no social life, has neighbors who dump their kids for baby-sitting, and lives in a world of shouts and whispers, depending on the function of her hearing aids.
Read My Lips is a marvel to watch throughout and the chemistry – even if it eludes… Review by James ★★★½ Audiard brilliantly subverts the Hitchcockian romantic thriller, isolating and doubling down on the deeper themes behind this commercial genre filmmaking legacy—obsession, voyeurism and shared guilt, and applying them to his ...
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- Jacques Audiard
As Paul, fresh out of jail, hapless and homeless, warily becomes the object of her charity, he becomes increasingly intrigued at her ability to read lips. While he becomes her defender in the workplace, she agrees to spy on a gang working on a heist.
Jacques Audiard's films expose the reality beneath the gloss of French society. He made his name by puncturing the myth of the Resistance. Now he has turned his attention to the false glamour of...
