Ciné-Club: Sur mes lèvres

La soirée cinéma

7pm at the Alliance Francaise office.

Come and join us.

As a secretary, Carla Behm is overqualified despite a disability that forces her to wear hearing aids in both ears. Still her co-workers ridicule her daily for her plain looks, all the while taking credit for her best work. She's on the verge of cracking until she gets permission to hire an assistant.

Enter Paul Angeli. He's a suave light-fingered ex-con unqualified for the simplest tasks. However when it comes tme to steal a file a co-worker has pilfered from Carla's desk, Paul has all the skills that Carla requires. Soon he discovers Carla's uncanny ability to read lips and their relatiosnhip becomes a seductive tango as Paul enlists Carla in a revenge plot against a crooked loan shark.

A masterfully crafted romantic thriller in the Hitchcock tradition, Read My Lips (Sur mes lèvres) won Best Screenplay at the 2002 César Awards.