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Released
2001 · FILM

Read My Lips

A nearly deaf office worker desperate to prove herself partners with a volatile ex‑convict on parole, forcing them into a risky heist where trust is scarce and failure means ruin.

Directed by
Runtime
115 min
Language
FR
CrimeDramaRomance
Streaming on
  • The Criterion Channel

Synopsis

She is nearly deaf and communicates through lip-reading. He is a former convict. She is determined to help him. He believes that no one can help him except himself.

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Principal cast & crew: 19

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

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This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Juliette WelflingShot by Mathieu VadepiedScored by Alexandre DesplatDesigned by Michel Barthelemy

Also known as

  • Lippenbekenntnissede
  • Read my lipsde
  • Tödliche Bekenntnissede
  • Read My Lipsen
  • Lee mis labioses
  • Sulle mie labbrait

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