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La Lectrice

1988, Movie, R, 100 mins

La Lectrice: Review

Director Michel Deville offers this adaptation of Raymond Jean's 1986 novel La Lectrice (The Reader). Constance (Miou-Miou) is a blonde with a sonorous voice who enjoys reading to her boy friend in bed. As the film opens, the novel she's reading aloud is Jean's La Lectrice, whose main character, Marie, is not unlike Constance. As Constance reads, Marie (also played by Miou-Miou) is placing a newspaper ad offering her services as a "reader"--of novels, poems, manuscripts, and... read more leave a comment