Read My Lips | |
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Directed by | Jacques Audiard |
Written by | Tonino Benacquista Jacques Audiard |
Produced by | Jean-Louis Livi Philippe Carcassonne Bernard Marescot (executive: SEDIF) Alix Raynaud (executive: Ciné B) |
Starring | Vincent Cassel Emmanuelle Devos Olivier Gourmet Olivia Bonamy Olivier Perrier Bernard Alane |
Cinematography | Mathieu Vadepied |
Edited by | Juliette Welfling |
Music by | Alexandre Desplat |
Production companies | SEDIF [fr] Ciné B Pathé Image France 2 Cinéma Canal+ (participation) Centre National de la Cinématographie (aid) |
Distributed by | Pathé Films (France) Magnolia Pictures (US) |
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Running time | 119 minutes |
Country | France |
Language | French |
Budget | $8.8 million[1] |
Box office | $5.4 million[2] |
Read My Lips (French: Sur mes lèvres) 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.