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La Lectrice

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La Lectrice
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R,1hr 38min
Genre:
Comedy
Release:
1988
Director:
Michel Deville
Starring:
Miou-Miou, Christian Ruche, Maria Casarés  ...more
Synopsis: At the suggestion of a friend, Constance (Miou-Miou) places an ad in the paper offering her services as a reader in this romantic comedy drama. Her job leads her to a variety of employers and occasional romantic involvement. Maria Casares plays the widow of an East European general who has Constance read Tolstoy and Marx. Pierre Dux is the local magistrate who prefers to hear the memoirs of the Marquis de Sade. She also has an affair with a harried business executive played by Patrick Chesnais. This ... Full Synopsis
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Michael Hastings, AMG Review
Miou-Miou's delicate, nuanced performance is at the heart of veteran French director Michael Deville's entertaining confection. In other hands, the film's story-within-a-story of a professional reader and her indisposed clients could have been precious and saccharine, but Deville and Miou-Miou achieve a bittersweet, gently erotic tone. Even when it becomes clear that our reader is a blank slate onto ... Full Review
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Miou-Miou
Constance/Marie
Christian Ruche
Jean/Philippe
Maria Casarés
General's Widow
Patrick Chesnais
Business Executive
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