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Carla Behm is a thirty-five who works as a secretary in the agency building. Despite his hard work, can not make a career within the company, in a highly sexist when Carla is continually frustrated by his physical appearance is not attractive and it is for its handicap, deafness, which can to hide thanks to a hearing aid.
stressed out from work ever more urgently, a day at the office Carla faints. His boss then decided to add an assistant, Paul Angeli, a guy with no experience just out of prison. Carla immediately feel a strong attraction toward him, as if the boy seemingly misfit who lives on the margins of society we see a bit of herself, and between the two comes a strange complicity.
But Paul has to come to terms with its past.
After suffering a beating in the bathroom of the office, confesses to Carla to have a debt of 70,000 francs Marchand, a shady type who blackmails him. To pay his debt, will be forced to work in local Marchand and leave my job in the company. Carla is a tragedy not want to lose Paul, but does not know how to help him.

few days later, Paul returned to find her and invites her into the room where he works. Carla is an illusion that Paul is going to woo her but he really has in mind a big one against right Marchand which keeps it in his fist. Remember the ability to read lips Carla, intends to use her to find out what they are planning Marchand and his two partners: a robbery at a bank.
Paul and Carla began thus affixed to the roof of the building opposite the office of Marchand and, with binoculars, spying on conversations between him and his accomplices through the window. Carla, at first reluctant, will prove to be smarter than it looks and be able to find out where to hide the loot Marchand. Paul and Carla are now put in motion to steal the money from under the nose and they succeed as well, but Marchand discovered the theft ...

THE FILM
what may at first seem like a classic film of social commentary or essay existential modern era, it becomes a respectable thriller, with a good dose of tension and a very interesting plot. Director Jacques Audiard
managed to pack a good movie, telling the story of two original characters, two anonymous lives, brought together by loneliness and desire for redemption in a society in which they excel the unscrupulous scoundrels. The use of spy shots almost through the keyhole, as if it would violate the privacy of an existence all too normal, bring highlight the details that would otherwise have gone unnoticed.

The beginning a little slow, almost mundane, takes us inside the life of Carla, in her frustration at being relegated to second-ever job, despite having more capacity is willing to recognize them in its alone in his small apartment, in the relationship with her friends and their sexual experiences that she can not match, in his handicap, that's a different feel, while trying in every way not to be, in his touchiness, his close to curl toward others not to feel rejected.
The arrival of Paul has an immediate impact in his life. Mandated to choose the right candidate for the post of assistant secretary, despite being aware that now is an ex-con and most inexperienced of the office, decides to hire the same, covers it with colleagues, helping you to learn and Member is also an accommodation to stay, because he wants to give him a chance, because it sees him as another being rejected, being considered a "different" from the society around them.

Paul, after two years in prison for theft and receiving stolen goods, is on parole and tries to find the right way. But not resigned to being an outcast, someone to blame, while trying to stay out of trouble.
will be meeting with Carla for both a change, a change of gear. At both
will use each other to get their little existential redemption, to become accomplices in a robbery against a shady individual. In other words: today me, tomorrow you ... The
turning thriller film is perhaps the strong point. After entering into their world, the director takes us inside the action, ordendo a shot from the dynamics quite original, in which the handicap of Carla reveals that Paul uses a very effective weapon with intelligence to reach his goal.

The two protagonists of victims will turn into "killers", as often happens in reality in people too long oppressed. All in a Paris subway, peripheral and night, far from the pomp and dazzling views of the Eiffel Tower. Although the final, a bit too obvious, satisfies all tastes, without falling into rhetoric or wallow in the drama.
Released in 2001, the film won three Cesar.

THE CAST

Vincent Cassel is Paul Angeli. Known more as
Mr. Bellucci than for his acting skills, I must admit that it was often a very good performer, though too often relegated to roles as tough and bad (Brotherhood of the Wolf, Doberman, The Promise Assassin): roles that can very well but are likely to close in a cliché landlocked. The role of Paul Angeli stands out from its usual role, especially in the understated style, never over the top of his acting. The face-dog of a man tried from prison, sharp and suspicious. A character well defined by Cassel, full of nuances, made a "normal" look scruffy and skinny. A good test of an actor that I really appreciated.

Emmanuelle Devos is Carla Behm .
know very little of this actress and I think I've seen so far only this movie with her as the protagonist. Not beautiful, not particularly gifted, this role is because the fit is everything the character should be.

confess my almost complete ignorance of the French cinema.
not even remember how this is done in my dvd shelf, perhaps as an attachment to a magazine. I only know that it was "unwatchable" for months before I found out. Yes, the verb "discover" I think it suits very well to this movie, because actually it was a great discovery.
first intrigued by the fact that there was only Cassel, who may not be beautiful, but her why (to ask ...), I was favorably Bellucci impressed by the film.
I have never particularly loved the cinema over the Alps, do not even know very well the director, Audiard, if not in name, but I learned a lesson: never before prevented from seeing a film. They take crazy blunders. In this case, positively! It 'also true that can not be considered a masterpiece of cinema, but as the French film industry is no different from years the extraordinary quality of his films, it was right for me to enter a film that had at least somewhat aroused considerable interest.

The start of muted My Lips takes pace in the second half. Left with the frustration and sadness of the two protagonists, you will be dragged into action and in designing a full-blown stroke, as two criminal minds ready to do everything not to give up.
A history traits abnormal, a love story that comes on slowly, but that does not take off if the last frame, not to give in to sentimentality.
Here, in this film about the disabled, former convicts, crime of stalking, but there is rhetoric and above all no malice nor pity. Everything is treated with "normal" even if you feel the inner unease bubbling in the two protagonists.

Everything is shown as a mirror for what is, without roof or ideologies: a cross-section of a given society, is today the world of work or the nightlife of a big city. A good film
European, born in a minor key, perhaps, but certainly not well known to be rediscovered for the originality with which the subjects were treated for the storyline interesting and surprisingly ingenious that the director has managed to create.
Last but not least, a very Cassel: less blowhard, less rude, less bad, more intimate, more real now than good.