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"La Lectrice" is a movie in love with words - deliriously intoxicated by the stories and images in the pages that Marie reads. But making a movie about reading is like writing a symphony about looking at paintings: How do you make the leap from one medium to another?
The Reader (French: La Lectrice) is a 1988 French film directed by Michel Deville. The film won that year's Louis Delluc Prize, and was nominated for nine César Awards including Best Supporting Actor, won by Patrick Chesnais.
"La Lectrice" is a smart, poetic movie with sparkling dialogs and ingenious sequences where the pleasure of words joins the pleasure of pictures. Another good point: a rightly chosen classical music mainly used in the moments where you see Marie walking down the streets of Arles between two reading sessions.
May 17, 1989 · “La Lectrice” (rated R for sexual situations and texts) is a movie that almost hugs itself with self-congratulation at its literacy. Mostly, that comes from elaborate film and literary...
Apr 21, 1989 · Michel Deville's new movie, ''La Lectrice'' (''The Reader''), is about the joys and the occasional perils of reading the works of, among others, Marguerite Duras, the Marquis de Sade and Guy...
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Constance is a young lady who likes to read – and who likes to dream while reading - to imagine, to create images. This is what she does for «La Lectrice», a novel which tells the adventures of Marie, a young lady who likes reading so much that she decides to make a profession of it.
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Sep 10, 2012 · La lectrice, wonderfully played by Miou-Miou, is Constance, a girl who likes reading to her boyfriend in bed. One night she begins a novel by Raymond Jean calle.
