Read My Lips (2001)
(Sur mes lèvres)
Country: FR
Technical: col 119m
Director: Jacques Audiard
Cast: Vincent Cassel, Emmanuelle Devos, Olivier Gourmet
Synopsis:
A partially deaf secretary at a building firm is much put upon by her male co-workers; when her boss offers her extra help she advertises and hires an ex-con, who proceeds to involve her in a daring theft.
Review:
Intelligently handled and directed with a convincing sense of the deaf person's world view, this Hitchcockian suspenser is much more of a character piece than anything the maestro made, offering real meat for its stars. It's what happens when a master scenarist takes hold of a genre (noir) and turns it to his own purposes: an exploration of the criminal in all of us; a predilection for the small fry, potential losers of society when they exercise their wits and turn to self-improvement. Carla and Paul are both weak in their differing ways but together constitute a formidable team.
(Sur mes lèvres)
Country: FR
Technical: col 119m
Director: Jacques Audiard
Cast: Vincent Cassel, Emmanuelle Devos, Olivier Gourmet
Synopsis:
A partially deaf secretary at a building firm is much put upon by her male co-workers; when her boss offers her extra help she advertises and hires an ex-con, who proceeds to involve her in a daring theft.
Review:
Intelligently handled and directed with a convincing sense of the deaf person's world view, this Hitchcockian suspenser is much more of a character piece than anything the maestro made, offering real meat for its stars. It's what happens when a master scenarist takes hold of a genre (noir) and turns it to his own purposes: an exploration of the criminal in all of us; a predilection for the small fry, potential losers of society when they exercise their wits and turn to self-improvement. Carla and Paul are both weak in their differing ways but together constitute a formidable team.
(Sur mes lèvres)
Country: FR
Technical: col 119m
Director: Jacques Audiard
Cast: Vincent Cassel, Emmanuelle Devos, Olivier Gourmet
Synopsis:
A partially deaf secretary at a building firm is much put upon by her male co-workers; when her boss offers her extra help she advertises and hires an ex-con, who proceeds to involve her in a daring theft.
Review:
Intelligently handled and directed with a convincing sense of the deaf person's world view, this Hitchcockian suspenser is much more of a character piece than anything the maestro made, offering real meat for its stars. It's what happens when a master scenarist takes hold of a genre (noir) and turns it to his own purposes: an exploration of the criminal in all of us; a predilection for the small fry, potential losers of society when they exercise their wits and turn to self-improvement. Carla and Paul are both weak in their differing ways but together constitute a formidable team.