Read My Lips (2001) Sur Mes Levres - French
Such a slow paced beautifully executed movie , a Perfect melodrama of love & mutual understanding . This story revolves around a women named Carla with hearing deficiency who also has a extraordinary ability to read People lips to understand what they say...!! Movie portrays her as a reserved , pessimistic and not a easily outgoing person living in her own world of darkness yet managing her job as a secretary in a Building construction firm. Office colleagues around her do not care much about her apart from her work and she is left alone with no much of social life making her accustomed to the life she is having.
Carla's life completely turns around when she appoints a young good looking guy Paul with a rude boy looks as her secretarial assistant. He just came out of parole as he was locked up before for committing theft and other petite crimes. Though he is unskilled for the job , he Wants to rewrite his life as a honest man and decides to work sincerely to the firm with help of Carla at every step .But fate doesn't loosen him up that easily and he is again been pulled back to the same world which he regret to be part off. In meantime , Carla instincts says the other and she couldn't control herself falling in love with Paul , this changes Carla's life totally as she starts to do things for Paul which she wouldn't have imagined doing in first place. But irrespective of all that , they start to have a weird bond a totally different relationship between them yet at same-time they care for each other . How Paul uses her ability to read people's lip movement for his advantage by planning a heist and manages to steal black money from a local mobster also a pub owner forms rest of the story.
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