Read My Lips
Read My Lips
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Read My Lips

Read My Lips

2001
Drama, Suspense/Thriller
1h 55m
Young secretary Carla is a long-time employee of a property development company. Loyal and hardworking, first to arrive and last to leave, Carla is beginning to chafe at the limitations of her career and is looking to move up. But as a 35-five-year-old woman with a hearing deficiency, she is not sure how to climb out of her humdrum life, though she is confident in her own abilities. Into her life comes Paul Angeli, a new trainee she decides to hire... (imdb)

Read My Lips

2001
Drama, Suspense/Thriller
1h 55m
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Rated 14 Aug 2007
76
78th
Read My Lips is an old school style of thriller with modern film-making techniques, and quite a good formula for other would-be directors with similar leanings to try to emulate. It's not just the sights and sounds that provide real suspense, rather it's how much we care about the people in them that really gets you chewing on those fingernails.
Rated 28 Feb 2023
80
68th
This is quite a remarkable film. It's kind of a crime film, and kind of a psych-sexual thriller, but both of these elements are saved for the last act. It's sets up these two main characters gradually, and then throws them together in extreme circumstances that teach them just how meant for each other they really are. The twists and turns of the last 20 minutes are ... wonderful.
Rated 15 Nov 2021
70
41st
Compelling characters with complex motivations, what more could you ask for? The first act could be a movie in itself, which is always fun, although by the denouement I was starting to think it’d gone a bit too far. Still an entertaining ride
Rated 22 Feb 2021
84
82nd
Sometimes you can be very lucky if to go through the piles of old movies and buy some from sale. "Read My Lips" is true treasure. Jacques Audiard has made another brilliant movie how two totally different persons can work together as well as A-Team.
Rated 23 Apr 2020
85
63rd
Both Devos and Cassel are great, reminds me of great French crime thrillers of the 70's
Rated 08 Sep 2019
65
54th
FRENCH SENSUAL MOVIE WITH LIPS AND UGLY FRENCH GUY THAT YET AGAIN HAS NO PROBLEMS GETTING A GOOD LOOKIN FRENCH CHICK
Rated 24 Dec 2017
95
77th
This is a very unusual & intense story in French of 2 outsiders who find themselves in circumstances where their very lives depend on trusting and relying on each other. It's also, among other things, a romance of sorts but definitely not a rom-com.
Rated 24 Oct 2017
75
61st
Not a bad premise for a thriller and some decent camera work helps seal the deal. However, I'm not sure why, but I never find thrillers to be the most, shall we say, thrilling films to watch.
Rated 04 Feb 2017
68
70th
Everyone here shows tremendous skill, and Audiard's writing is as good as his directing. It's not a very innovative or revelatory film, but the excellence of the characterization really helps it as an eventual thriller.
Rated 03 Jun 2016
75
80th
E. Devos carries this film. It's a very well writed and well played character. The way she find the love forcing it, like a shy school-girl with too much power, it's amazing. Love it's interdependence, as sex it's a dirty power game, and that's the more cynic way to tell it. By technical stand-point, Audiard is a great director, and here it's especially great how he manage the sound perception of Carlà, let us feeling the world in her way, capable to turn off it or read it from a safe position.
Rated 06 Nov 2015
85
82nd
Intense
Rated 11 Aug 2014
95
92nd
Largely dependent on an indelibly touching performance by Emmanuelle Devos, Audiard's emotional, cagey dramatic caper genuinely engages on various levels, one being a refreshing variation on the office romance, two lonely people discovering each other in a way that germinates in a purely unique fashion.
Rated 18 Sep 2013
85
83rd
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Rated 22 Apr 2013
70
70th
French movie with English subtitles. A nearly deaf girl befriends an ex-con and is drawn into a plan to steal money from a local gangster. The plot hinges on her ability to read lips to discover the gangsters secrets. Fast paced and riveting. Just as they are about to escape with the loot, he is caught and things quickly go very bad. A plan to live through the ordeal is quickly hatched and set into motion. Vincent Cassel was surprisingly good in this, but Emmanuelle Devos was a standout.
Rated 28 Jan 2013
70
75th
The lip reading on the roof scene was amazing, had a few other great scenes which I can't remember right now since it's been months, a good movie.
Rated 18 Oct 2012
60
48th
that orgasmic lip reading scene was unforgettable.. "oui oui oui; oui oui.. oui."
Rated 25 Oct 2010
35
90th
"Their fascinating interdependence gives way to a power struggle built on unspoken trust and a series of daring demands." - Ed Gonzalez
Rated 11 Sep 2010
70
68th
If you're in the mood for a thriller, but you've seen all the well-known ones, this is a good one to rent.
Rated 30 Dec 2009
91
91st
Id taste his lips
Rated 26 Aug 2008
79
69th
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Rated 14 Aug 2007
40
26th
My recollection is that this is rather too formulaic.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
65
40th
Though it loses steam somewhere around the middle, Sur mes levres is a fun, thrilling ride.

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