Storyline

A multi-faceted film based on Raymond Jean's novel "La Lectrice". Constance (Miou-Miou) reads the novel aloud in bed to her lover. Inspired by the story of Marie, a woman who advertises her services as a reader of literature, Constance decides to do the same. Here the film takes on a kaleidoscopic effect as the lives of Constance and Marie become merged, making it hard to distinguish what is real and what is fantasy. This structure is further complicated when the lives of Constance's clients become tangled with the stories she reads. The film is interspersed with readings from well known literary sources as diverse as, amongst others, Baudelaire, Duras, Tolstoy, Lewis Carroll and de Sade's "120 days..."—Michele Wilkinson - University of Cambridge Language Centre

Plot Keywords

reading, male nudity, male frontal nudity, reference to leo tolstoy, reference to alice in wonderland, white panties, panties, topless female nudity, female nudity, reference to karl marx, reference to josef stalin, reference to lenin, based on novel

Short Review

La Lectrice is a movie in love with words -- deliriously intoxicated by the stories and images in the pages that Marie reads.

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