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Read My Lips [DVD] [2002]
enlarge	Director: Jacques Audiard Actors: Vincent Cassel, Emmanuelle Devos Studio: Pathe Distribution Category: DVD Buy New: £34.82 as of 20/3/2010 07:21 GMT details New (1) Used (3) from £29.99 Seller: thebookcommunity Rating: 17 reviews Sales Rank: 19100 Format: PAL, Widescreen Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), French (Unknown), English (Subtitled) Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over Region: 2 Discs: 1 Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 113 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 5060002831076 ASIN: B00008AWRU Theatrical Release Date: 2001 Release Date: March 10, 2003 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Editorial Reviews: Amazon.co.uk Review Workplace dramas seem to have become a French speciality, and Jacques Audiard's IRead My Lips/I ("Sur mes levres") proves a worthy follow-up to such notable predecessors in the genre as IHuman Resources/I and ITime Out/I ("L'Emploi du temps"). The film also nods towards Neil LaBute's IIn the Company of Men/I and Hitchcock's IRear Window/I, but it's none the worse for that. Carla, our anti-heroine (Emmanuelle Devos), is an ugly duckling working as a secretary for a construction company in suburban Paris. Dowdy and all-but deaf, she's exploited and put upon by her male coworkers. When her boss lets her hire an assistant she bizarrely chooses Paul (Vincent Cassel), a scruffy and none-too-bright ex-con. But an odd symbiosis grows up between this pair of losers; the combination of his petty-criminal skills and her lip-reading abilities has certain potentials. p As IA Self-Made Hero/I, his previous movie, showed, Audiard doesn't go in for lovable characters. Carla is no long-suffering saint and Paul is frankly sleazy, but this just makes their interaction all the more intriguing. Devos, glowering malevolently beneath her dark brows, and Cassel with his greasy hair and ratty moustache, turn in relishably truculent and un-starry performances, and Audiard deftly manages the transition from office comedy to gangland heist thriller with no grinding of gears. By the end the plot starts to strain belief, but it scarcely matters. The Inoir/I-ish lighting and potent use of hand-held close-ups enhance the film's sense of nervous unease, and there's ingenious use of sound to convey Carla's hearing-impaired world. Downbeat and unblinkingly amoral, IRead My Lips/I offers pleasures that a glossier treatment would have missed entirely. p BOn the DVD:/B IRead My Lips/I has no extras on the disc beyond the trailer. But the transfer is clean and crisp, offering the full-width original ratio, and the Dolby sound captures the all-important subtleties of the soundtrack flawlessly. --IPhilip Kemp/I

Customer Reviews: Showing reviews 1-5 of 17 1 2 3 4 Next » Quirky, touching and moving. March 7, 2004 David T. Lesser 5 out of 5 found this review helpful 'Read My Lips'is fantastic! This odd, but compelling, thriller benefits from exceptional performances by the two principals, especially from Emmanuelle Devos, who manages to be victimised, intelligent, frumpish and sexy all at the same time.pThe action is tense and unpredictable, and the developing love story, as the two maladjusted characters begin to support each other, is touching without being sickly.pFrench film at its best! Ooh La La September 7, 2005 Sweary (Cork, Ireland) 10 out of 11 found this review helpful Amazing, thrilling, beautiful, insighful... there really aren't enough adjectives to describe what a joy this movie is.brA thriller with a heart, with characters both immoral and loveable, Read My Lips is a film everyone with a passing interst in cimena should see. This is how urban stories should be told, with equal passion and compassion, with edge of the seat nail-biting, with the occasional teary sniff. Both leads are utterly astounding, and the chemistry between them crackles off the screen. Probably my favourite film; I bought it approximately ten minutes after the credits rolled on my rental DVD! An absolute treat. July 26, 2003 Karl Coulby (Dominican Republic) 6 out of 7 found this review helpful Read my lips is a solidly acted film that defies palcement in a genre. However it will definately keep you on the edge of your seat.brThe film itself (without giving much away) covers a multitude of different styles, all effortlessly combined. It is both a character study, a heist movie and romance and a thriller, and yet no one genre takes precedence over another.brThe plot itself weaves various story lines seamlessly together, and yet will still keep you guessing right up until the end.brIn short a superb film. Amazing film, disappointing DVD May 19, 2004 10 out of 12 found this review helpful I believe enough has been said about this amazing film with a superb onscreen couple. However the English DVD version is a major disappointment since it has none of the features you get in the French version: deleted scenes, alternate ending, director's and actors' commentary, interviews, etc. Unfortunately this version isn't available from Amazon. Such a shame. never underestimate anyone December 12, 2007 E. J. Williams 1 out of 1 found this review helpful this is a great, very clever and intelligent film, quite pacey and always getting to its point! well worth the money too. br /the two main characters come together through there different needs and despite there less than honourable intentions towards each other soon realise they need each other. br /turning diss-advantage to advantage on both sides Showing reviews 1-5 of 17 1 2 3 4 Next »

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