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 other texts on a private, in-home basis. Though intricately structured and innovatively staged, LA
LECTRICE is essentially a one-note movie with very little content and even less ...
Released:
1988
Rated:
R
Length:
100 mins