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Read My Lips

compiled by Jeffrey Overstreet


from Film Forum, 08/15/02

Speaking of temptations offered by coworkers, there's another arthouse flick that presents a more extreme dilemma. The new French thriller called Read My Lips has critics offering enthusiastic raves. Carla Bhem and Paul Angeli star in the story of a deaf office worker whose secretive coworker suddenly draws her into a risky, life-and-death caper of robbery, murder, and intrigue.

Phil Boatwright (Movie Reporter) says, "The film deals with insulation, loneliness and frustration with life, but the solution in this film is vengeance and thievery. It contains provocative material, fine performances and tight direction, but I left the theater depressed. Did either person really find love or did they simply stick together out of desperation?"