Jacques Audiard is since some time a well respected French director and "Sur mes lèvres" is one of his best known ones. You can divide the movie in two parts namely the first hour at where we see how Carla (Emmanuelle Devos) meets Paul (Vincent Cassel) and then the second hour which is developing itself in a real film noir that apart from some brutal scenes can be best described as an intimate arty film noir. Carla is a secretary at a real estate company who works herself to death. Work is the sole category in where she can prove herself as not only she is hard hearing but she has no luck in love either, if love for her even exists. One day she may recruit an assistant and perhaps it's all a bit unrealistic, the job goes to Paul who is just out of jail and who even hasn't typed one letter in his life. At first it seems the two aren't exactly made for each other, but slowly grows respect and a friendship till Carla gets involved in the world of crime. The biggest problem this movie has is its impossible scenario unless you believe that some jerk out of jail without any intelligence can start working in some company doing administrative work. But that itself is just a minor point as Audiard made a more than decent crime story even if the whole plan could have been better explained, but this isn't exactly your Hollywood movie and it wasn't really Audiard's goal as well. Some journalists claim to give this movie four stars and that is exaggerated but apart from that is "Sur mes lèvres" worth the time.
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