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Read My Lips

Sur mes lèvres

2001

Jacques Audiard

Vincent Cassel, Emmanuelle Devos, Olivier Gourmet, Serge Boutleroff ...

6.6

1,873

Drama irst to arrive in the morning, last to leave at night, thirtysomething Carla (Emmanuelle Devos) has been working conscientiously as a senior secretary for a property development firm for years. Instead of being recognised and rewarded for her diligence, however, Carla is exploited and ridiculed by her predominantly male colleagues. Carla also suffers from impaired hearing, and the director effectively cuts off sound to pull us into her ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"Its gritty immersion in the petty indignities of working life (...) gets under your skin and turns its two beleaguered losers into genuine outlaw heroes."	POS
United Kingdom	Philip French The Guardian	"This is a splendidly amoral thriller of passion and double-crossing that revives the noir spirit of Jacques Becker and Jean-Pierre Melville, of Jean Gabin and Lino Ventura."	POS
United Kingdom	Jonathan Romney The Independent	"The film's first half is brilliant and unusual (...) This is the sort of thriller that just doesn't get made in Britain or America – neurotic, ambivalent, and not afraid to dirty its hands with moral uncertainties"	POS
United States	Derek Elley Variety	"Audiard skillfully bends some established genres"	POS
United States	J.R. Jones Chicago Reader	"The tense climax stretches the story's credibility to the breaking point, but for the most part this is noir of an exceptionally high caliber"	POS
United Kingdom	Alan Morrison Empire	"Two great performances from Devos and Cassel and some sizzling sexual tension really makes this film a tour de force (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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