A multi-faceted film based on Raymond Jean's novel "La Lectrice". Constance (Miou-Miou) reads the novel aloud in bed to her lover. Inspired by the story of Marie, a woman who advertises her...
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Title: La lectrice (1988)
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| Miou-Miou | ... | Constance / Marie | |
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Christian Ruché | ... | Jean / Philippe |
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Sylvie Laporte | ... | Françoise |
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Michel Raskine | ... | L'homme de l'agence |
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Brigitte Catillon | ... | La mère d'Éric |
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Régis Royer | ... | Éric |
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Simon Eine | ... | Le professeur d'hôpital |
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Christian Blanc | ... | Le vieux maître de Marie |
| Marianne Denicourt | ... | Bella | |
| María Casares | ... | La veuve du général (as Maria Casarès) | |
| André Wilms | ... | L'homme de la rue Saint-Landry | |
| Patrick Chesnais | ... | Le PDG | |
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Clotilde de Bayser | ... | La mère de Coralie |
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Jean-Luc Boutté | ... | Le commissaire de police |
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Bérangère Bonvoisin | ... | La mère de Joël |
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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. Inspired by the story of Marie, a woman who advertises her services as a reader of literature, Constance decides to do the same. Here the film takes on a kaleidoscopic effect as the lives of Constance and Marie become merged, making it hard to distinguish what is real and what is fantasy. This structure is further complicated when the lives of Constance's clients become tangled with the stories she reads. The film is interspersed with readings from well known literary sources as diverse as, amongst others, Baudelaire, Duras, Tolstoy, Lewis Carroll and de Sade's "120 days..." Written by Michele Wilkinson - University of Cambridge Language Centre
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Country:
FranceLanguage:
FrenchRelease Date:
October 1989 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
The Reader See more »Filming Locations:
Arles, Bouches-du-Rhône, FranceEdit
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$699,397Company Credits
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There's more than a little touch of Pirandello in the night about this entry in which a young woman, Constance, is not only reading a book entitled The Reader, to her husband in bed but also projects herself on to the eponymous character, Marie, and acts out either her own (Constance) fantasies or those of the fictional Marie or a combination of both. Given the task of carrying the film Miou-Miou is more than up to it and freshness is added by both the location, Arles, albeit little more than the picturesque narrow streets traversed by Marie between gigs, and the supporting cast, relatively unknown outside France though certainly well respected - especially Brigitte Catillon and Patrick Chesnais - within it. It's unquestionably a film that will divide opinion between those who will surrender to its whimsy, offbeat charm and dialogue and those who will denounce it as soft-porn with a press agent. As for me, I love Brigitte Catillon in anything.