Sur mes lèvres (English title: Read my Lips) is a 2001 French film by Jacques Audiard, co-written with Tonino Benacquista. The film stars Vincent Cassel as Paul, an ex-con on parole, and Emmanuelle Devos as Carla, a nearly deaf secretary whose colleagues treat her disrespectfully, causing her to suffer. Despite their different backgrounds and initial fear of each other, they end up intimately related and helping each other.
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Sur mes lèvres (English title: Read my Lips) is a 2001 French film by Jacques Audiard, co-written with Tonino Benacquista. The film stars Vincent Cassel as Paul, an ex-con on parole, and Emmanuelle Devos as Carla, a nearly deaf secretary whose colleagues treat her disrespectfully, causing her to suffer. Despite their different backgrounds and initial fear of each other, they end up intimately related and helping each other.
Jacques Audiard combines disability, insecurity, love, revenge, and intensity to form his modern thriller Sur mes lèvres. The film is set in the unwelcoming offices and dirty underworld of Paris. It follows a storyline where a lonely woman, burdened by disability and lack of respect, takes comfort in a younger man who enters her life. The man is by no means perfect, but neither is the woman. The two make sacrifices for one another, and together they advance through scandalous operations while falling in love along the way.
The woman/heroine in this movie, Carla, is...
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