Read My Lips (2001)
Directed by Jacques Audiard
She is almost deaf and she lip-reads. He is an ex-convict. She wants to help him. He thinks no one can help except himself.
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Newcomer Tahar Rahim gives Malik the right combination of tough bravado and naivety; watching him evolve is one of the film's chief pleasures; and while the actor may not have the eyes of Emanuelle Devos (Audiard's "Read My Lips") or the energy of Romain Duris ("Heart Skipped"), he's got plenty of boyish charm.
None of this will be a surprise to followers of co-writer (with Thomas Bidegain) and director Audiard, a meticulous craftsman whose four previous films, including U.S. art-house successes "Read My Lips" and "The Beat That My Heart Skipped," display a passion for well-constructed, emotionally connected narratives and gripping, visceral storytelling that "A Prophet" takes to even more impressive levels.
Audiard is no stranger to crime stories, having directed the superlative Read My Lips and The Beat That My Heart Skipped, a French remake of James Tobackâs Oedipal drama Fingers.
Directed by the highly regarded French filmmaker Jacques Audiard ( "Read My Lips," "The Beat That My Heart Skipped" ), "A Prophet" might have been just another movie about what prison does to a person, were it not for the elements suggested by the title.
Laura: Cowriter (with Thomas Bidegain)/director Jacques Audiard, whose last two films ("Read My Lips," "The Beat That My Heart Skipped") were backgrounded in criminal activity, brings the world of the criminal front and center in this epic prison drama.
French writer-director Jacques Audiard has made some terrific thrillers in the past few years, including "Read My Lips" and "The Beat That My Heart Skipped."
If Hallam Foe possessed itself of tighter narrative and psychological parameters, and its climaxes felt more equal in scope and in emotional heft to the film that has conveyed us toward them, the movie might amass the charge of Jacques Audiard's Read My Lips or The Beat that My Heart Skipped , whose sensory richness and offbeat character studies and enervating suspense Hallam Foe otherwise shares.