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Feature Film | Thriller | France | French | 1h59m
Feature Film | Thriller | France | French | 1h59m
Dir: Jacques Audiard | Scr: Jacques Audiard & Tonino Benacquista | Ph: Mathieu Vadepied | Prod: Philippe Carcassonne & Jean-Louis Livi | Mus: Alexandre Desplat | Ed: Juliette Welfling | PD: Michel Barthélémy | AD: Etienne Rohde | Snd: Marc-Antoine Beldent | Cast: Vincent Cassel, Emmanuelle Devos, Olivier Gourmet, Olivier Perrier, Olivia Bonamy, Bernard Alane, Céline Samie, Pierre Diot, François Loriquet, Serge Boutleroff, David Saracino, Christophe Vandevelde
In Audiard’s sexy, slow burn thriller, an underappreciated secretary, who was once deaf but can now hear quite well with the use of hearing aids, hires as her assistant an ex-con and quickly becomes quite fond of him – so much so that she soon finds herself making use of her prodigious lip-reading skills to help him to rip off a dodgy club owner, to whom he owes a considerable sum of money. Expressive mise en scène and sound design coupled with Devos’s outstanding performance manage to give us a rare and sensuous insight into the world of the hearing-impaired.