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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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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.
This rich character study defies the conventions of the thriller while delivering a deeply satisfying experience for genre fans. With daring sound design and impeccable performances by Emmanuelle Devos and Vincent Cassel, Read My Lips is a gripping entry in Jacques Audiard’s (A Prophet) oeuvre. Now showing (almost globally) here.
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Jun 6, 2012 · After his accomplished French-resistance drama A Self-Made Hero (Un Héros très discret, 1996), Jacques Audiard's Read My Lips (Sur mes lèvres) returns to the neo-noir of his debut See How They Fall (Regarde les hommes tomber, 1993).
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Longing for the relationship of a man Carla lives vicariously through her friend Annie (Olivia Bonamy) who thrills Carla with tales of her sexual exploits while getting Carla to take care of her child while she goes to out-of-the-way trysts with assorted male friends.
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When things threaten to get suspenseful in the most routine manner, Audiard gives us a skin-of-the-teeth escape routine – using lip-reading, of course – that dazzles with its sheer cheek.
