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October 1989 (USA)
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A multi-faceted film based on Raymond Jean's novel "La Lectrice". Constance (Miou-Miou) reads the novel aloud in bed to her lover...
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Dreary sex comedy
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Miou-Miou | ... | Constance / Marie |
| Régis Royer | ... | Eric |
| María Casares | ... | General's Widow |
| Patrick Chesnais | ... | Company Director |
| Pierre Dux | ... | Magistrate |
| Christian Ruché | ... | Jean / Philippe |
| Brigitte Catillon | ... | Eric's Mother |
| Marianne Denicourt | ... | Bella |
| Charlotte Farran | ... | Coralie |
| Clotilde de Bayser | ... | Coralie's Mother |
| Jean-Luc Boutté | ... | Police Inspector |
| Simon Eine | ... | Hospital Professor |
| Maria de Medeiros | ... | L'infirmière muette |
| André Wilms | ... | Man in Rue Saint-Landry |
| Bérangère Bonvoisin | ... | Joel's Mother |
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The Reader
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Argentina:97 min | USA:98 min | South Korea:94 min
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The Gallic pseudo-sophistication runs pretty thick through this wafer-thin comedy, featuring Miou-Miou as a woman who decides to make a profession out of reading aloud to people. What transpires, of course, is that her sensuality and life-affirming giddiness enter into and transform the texts for her clients. It all has a certain well-measured charm, even if the whimsical wordplay gets overbearing quite often, and ultimately it loses this charm when it is decided that the character Marie is maintaining her dignity when refusing to read aloud pornographic material by de Sade for a geriatric judge and his friends, while finding no moral objection in allowing herself to be seduced by another client. At this point, the movie, which had been discreet in its treatment of sexuality, suddenly whacks the viewer in the face with closeups of the actress's naked crotch, and the whole exercise starts appearing more conspicuously misogynist: ultimately one gets the sense that neither the character nor the actress is in on the joke. This is not aided by the gratingly winsome yet flaccid performance by Miou-Miou, who does not thrive in this kind of role - there is really nothing to play here. There is really nothing to watch, either.