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Read My Lips

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Read My Lips (2002)

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Reviews Counted: 94

Fresh: 91

Rotten:3

Average Rating: 7.8/10

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

Runtime: 1 hr 59 mins

Genre: Foreign Films

Theatrical Release: Jul 5, 2002 Limited

Box Office: $1,177,985

Synopsis: In its opening shot, READ MY LIPS shows Carla (Emmanuelle Devos) inserting her hearing aids and getting ready for work. But it's evident that her hearing problem does not hold her back as she throws herself into answering the constantly... In its opening shot, READ MY LIPS shows Carla (Emmanuelle Devos) inserting her hearing aids and getting ready for work. But it's evident that her hearing problem does not hold her back as she throws herself into answering the constantly ringing phones at her job as an unappreciated secretary for an architecture firm. Swamped with work, Carla asks her boss to hire an assistant for her, Paul (Vincent Cassel), an ex-con who is trying to get his life back on track. To everyone else--her sexist coworkers and her sexy friend Annie--Carla is a dog with a disability. But to Paul, who is Carla's subordinate, she's a femme fatale. In Paul's life--to his parole officer and the two-bit thugs to whom he still owes money--he is an untrustworthy outcast and a bum. But to Carla, he is a secret weapon with skills (lock-picking, physical intimidation) that she needs. Likewise, Carla becomes Paul's secret weapon as her ability to read lips opens up a new world of possibilities to his plotting, criminal ways. READ MY LIPS is a story of romance through and through, and, in its second half, it is a fast-moving and constantly flip-flopping heist drama. Once Carla and Paul really start working together, the tension between them only helps them along. Never trusting each other, never predictable in their actions, these characters imbue Jacques Audiard's masterful film with a breathtaking suspense that is simultaneously alluring and repellent. [More]

Starring: Vincent Cassel, Emmanuelle Devos, Olivier Gourmet, Olivier Perrier

Starring: Vincent Cassel, Emmanuelle Devos, Olivier Gourmet, Olivier Perrier, Olivia Bonamy

Director: Jacques Audiard

Director: Jacques Audiard
Screenwriter: Jacques Audiard, Tonino Benacquista
Composer: Alexandre Desplat
Studio: Magnolia Pictures

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Jul 22, 2003

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DVD Features:

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  • Widescreen - 1.85

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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

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

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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.

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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.

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08/24/03
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“Read My Lips” surprises by making the viewer care more about the characters than the plot.

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06/19/03
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Art-house to the core, Read My Lips is a genre-curling crime story that revives the free-wheeling noir spirit of old French cinema.

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05/13/03
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A delectable and intriguing thriller filled with surprises, Read My Lips is an original. This is a story of two misfits who don’t stand a chance alone, but together they are magnificent.

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Bring a date too, after this you might look at each other in a whole new light.

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