If you enjoy film noir, romantic attachments, Hitchcock, humour,
or the thriller genre, you should find plenty to appreciate
in this story of the seedy-but-appealing ex-con (Cassel) and
the partially-deaf office girl (Devos) whose lip-reading ability
becomes crucial as the plot thickens. She needs an assistant
in the estate agency, and picking Paul changes her from dowdy
dogsbody to a woman living on the edge of her nerves and emotions.
Audiard dispenses with glamour and slickness: his unflinching
eye for the ways in which people are turned inside-out through
thwarted desire and desperation presents us with an edgy,
erotic and increasingly violent movie.
Critics
"Some
surprisingly abstract and sublime images, outstanding performances
and a wonderfully intense use of sound that confirm Audiard
as a man to watch." FilmFour Review
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Director
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Jacques
Audiard |
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Writers |
Jacques
Audiard |
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Tonino
Benacquista |
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Cast |
Vincent
Cassel
Emmanuelle Devos
Olivier Gourmet
Olivier Perrie
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Cert |
15 |
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Length |
1hr
58mins |
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Country |
France
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Language |
In
French with English subtitles |
Other
films by Jacques
Audiard
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