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Read My Lips (Sur mes lèvres)

Read My Lips (Sur mes lèvres) (2001)

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97

Average Rating: 7.8/10
Reviews Counted: 95
Fresh: 92 | Rotten: 3

A clever and offbeat character study about two people discovering each other.

96

Average Rating: 8/10
Critic Reviews: 28
Fresh: 27 | Rotten: 1

A clever and offbeat character study about two people discovering each other.

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Average Rating: 3.8/5
User Ratings: 5,284

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A woman looking for love finds a man who leads her into a life of crime in this thriller. Carla (Emmanuelle Devos) is a woman in her mid-twenties who works as a secretary in a real estate office. More cute than pretty, Carla is shy by nature, and the fact that she has a hearing problem has made her all the more withdrawn. While she longs for a relationship with a man, she finds herself living vicariously through her friend Annie (Olivia Bonamy), a single parent who dates often while Carla

Jul 22, 2003

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Audiard has created one of those rare, commercially released movies that trades in actual, honest-to-god surprise.

October 4, 2002 Full Review Source: Toronto Star
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Having changed into action gear, the picture never looks back, leaving two people who seemed wonderfully unique to do things that are cinematically trite.

October 4, 2002 Full Review Source: Globe and Mail
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See it now, before the inevitable Hollywood remake flattens out all its odd, intriguing wrinkles.

September 20, 2002 Full Review Source: Miami Herald
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It's neither as romantic nor as thrilling as it should be. But it offers plenty to ponder and chew on as its unusual relationship slowly unfolds.

September 5, 2002
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Read My Lips works on many levels, one being a fresh take on the 'office romance,' but a romance that evolves in a strictly nontraditional way.

August 30, 2002 Full Review Source: Sacramento Bee
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Crawling onto the razor's edge with bare hands, Jacques Audiard's film generates daringly uncomfortable, psychologically dangerous heat rarely found in romance of any stripe. Exhilaratingly paced, cleverly suspenseful and tastefully erotic.

September 17, 2010 Full Review Source: Suite101.com
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Un film en constante progression démarrant sur la note d'un drame exceptionnel pour se terminer sous les traits d'un des suspenses les mieux nantis des années 2000

March 16, 2006 Full Review Source: Panorama

May be the finest thriller/romance hybrid of the new century.

May 4, 2005 Full Review Source: Lessons of Darkness
Lessons of Darkness

Like the Vertigo-inspired Chinese film Suzhou River, it pays homage to Hitchcock without copying, and the results are original and thrilling in their own right.

March 13, 2004 Full Review Source: Offoffoff
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January 7, 2004 Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com
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Muito bem estruturada, a narrativa aproveita ao máximo suas várias reviravoltas para criar suspense e também para estabelecer uma forte tensão sexual entre os protagonistas.

August 24, 2003
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"Read My Lips" surprises by making the viewer care more about the characters than the plot.

July 29, 2003 Full Review

No supplemental material on this DVD edition but, then again, it's Audiard's taut screenplay and even more effective observation of a very complex relationship that's key here.

July 2, 2003 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine
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Audience Reviews for Read My Lips (Sur mes lèvres)

While Sur mes levres is a bit unfocused at times, it still delivers as a poweful thriller with nice psychological touches. Jacques Audiard is definetly a director with loads of skill and vision. Technically this is nearly as good as his Un Prophete and De battre mon cÅ"ur s'est arrêtà (C). but as storywise it does not reach the same heights of those films. It certainly has all the potential to be something brilliant, but the occasionally messy screenplay mixes too many ingredients into one soup. End result feels a uneven mix of psychodrama and thriller cliches. Still as i said, even with all it's flaws this is a powerful cinema which proves that Jacques Audiard is one of the true masters when it comes to filmmaking.
February 8, 2011
emilkakko

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Superb Hitchcockian thriller with a fantastic double act in Emmanuelle Devos & Vincent Cassel, who are both excellent. The film is unbearably tense, romantic, sexy, offbeat and finally oddly beautiful. The cinematography is great, the central conceit is used to great effect (sound design is particularly effective) and the direction taught. The director, Jacques Audiard, who has gone on to make the equally impressive The Beat That My Heart Skipped, is fast becoming a personal favorite...
July 3, 2007
danieljparsons

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