Read My Lips (film)
Read My Lips French Sur mes lvres is a 2001 French film by Jacques Audiard, cowritten with Tonino Benacquista. The film stars Vincent Cassel as Paul, an excon 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.
Carla is introduced immediately with a shot of her putting in her hearing aids. She is an overworked and underappreciated secretary for a construction company, ridiculed behind her back by her coworkers who do not know she is deaf but despise her homely appearance and subservient position. After she faints from exhaustion she accepts the bosss offer to hire an intern to lighten her load.The first applicant to be her assistant, Paul, is an exconvict who is not technically qualified to be Carlas assistant, but she hires him. Pauls affable nature and bad boy spirit relieve Carlas loneliness and open up new possibilities for her. She rebuffs his initial clumsy sexual advances, but gradually they become a team, using creative but questionable methods to improve Carlas position at work. ........
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