Read My Lips

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Read My Lips

R,

2002,

1h 58m,

Drama/

Mystery & Thriller

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97%

96 Reviews

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82%

5,000+ Ratings

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Carla Bhem (Emmanuelle Devos) has worked as a secretary for a property development company for a long time. Her job includes everything from handling files to dealing with suppliers. First to arrive in the morning, last out at night... And her reward? To be paid like a serf, treated like mud and ordered around like a dog. The name of the solution is Paul Angeli (Vincent Cassel), the new trainee she had hired that is fresh out of jail. She teaches him good manners, and he teaches her bad ones.

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Critics Consensus

A clever and offbeat character study about two people discovering each other.

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Nick Schager

Lessons of Darkness

May 4, 2005

A-

May be the finest thriller/romance hybrid of the new century.

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Geoff Pevere

Toronto Star

Oct 4, 2002

4/5

Audiard has created one of those rare, commercially released movies that trades in actual, honest-to-god surprise.

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Rick Groen

Globe and Mail

Oct 4, 2002

2.5/4

Having changed into action gear, the picture never looks back, leaving two people who seemed wonderfully unique to do things that are cinematically trite.

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Frank J. Avella

The Contending

Oct 21, 2025

B+

Audiard loves to genre blend and that was obvious early on. Here he whips together elements of noir, romantic comedy and gritty thriller and dishes out a most delicious cinematic soufflé. Devos and Cassel make a fab team.

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Nick Rogers

Midwest Film Journal

Sep 17, 2010

3.5/4

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.

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Mark Halverson

Sacramento News & Review

Aug 7, 2008

4/5

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Synopsis

Carla Bhem (Emmanuelle Devos) has worked as a secretary for a property development company for a long time. Her job includes everything from handling files to dealing with suppliers. First to arrive in the morning, last out at night... And her reward? To be paid like a serf, treated like mud and ordered around like a dog. The name of the solution is Paul Angeli (Vincent Cassel), the new trainee she had hired that is fresh out of jail. She teaches him good manners, and he teaches her bad ones.

Director: Jacques Audiard
Producer: Philippe Carcassonne, Jean-Louis Livi
Screenwriter: Jacques Audiard, Tonino Benacquista
Distributor: Magnolia Films
Production Co: Paramount
Rating: R (Some Sexual Content|Language|Violence)
Genre: Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: French (France)
Release Date (Theaters): Jul 5, 2002, Wide
Box Office (Gross USA): $1.4M
Runtime: 1h 58m
Sound Mix: Dolby Stereo, Dolby Digital, Dolby A, Surround, Dolby SR
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

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