Read My Lips (Sur mes lèvres) (2001)
Average Rating: 7.8/10
Reviews Counted: 95
Fresh: 92 | Rotten: 3
A clever and offbeat character study about two people discovering each other.
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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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 More cute than pretty, Carla is shy by nature, and the fact that she has a hearing problem has made her all the more withdrawn.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
Cast
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Vincent Cassel
Paul Angeli -
Emmanuelle Devos
Carla Behm -
Olivier Gourmet
Marchand -
Olivia Bonamy
Annie -
Olivier Perrier
Masson -
Bernard Alane
Morel -
Cecile Samie
Josie Marchand -
David Saracino
Richard Carambo -
Christophe Vandevelde
Louis Carambo -
Pierre Diot
Keller -
Serge Boutleroff
Mammouth -
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All Critics (110) | Top Critics (33) | Fresh (94) | Rotten (3) | DVD (8)
Audiard has created one of those rare, commercially released movies that trades in actual, honest-to-god surprise.
Top CriticHaving changed into action gear, the picture never looks back, leaving two people who seemed wonderfully unique to do things that are cinematically trite.
See it now, before the inevitable Hollywood remake flattens out all its odd, intriguing wrinkles.
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.
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.
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.
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
May be the finest thriller/romance hybrid of the new century.
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.
"Read My Lips" surprises by making the viewer care more about the characters than the plot.
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.
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Foreign Titles
- Read My Lips (Sur Mes Levres) (DE)
- Sur Mes Lèvres (Read My Lips) (UK)
