Read My Lips (Sur Mes Lèvres) Director: Jacques Audiard Language: Native French w/English Subtitles Rating: R Length: 119 minutes When: Wednesday, April 2nd Time: 6:30 to 10:00 pm.  Screening starts @ 7:00 pm Where: DCTV @ The Firehouse 3rd Floor Screening Room 87 Lafayette St (between Walker & White) Closest subway stops: N/Q/R/W, J/M/Z, or 6 to Canal Street.  DCTV is located two blocks South of Canal Street in NYC. VIEW MAP Cost: $5  The disTHIS! Film Series, a project of the Disabilities Network of NYC in association with DCTV, is a monthly showcase of festival quality independent and international short, documentary and feature films with disability themes audiences are unlikely to see elsewhere. disTHIS! movies are always provocative; never quite what you’d  expect. No handkerchief necessary, no heroism required. This is disability through a whole new lens. disTHIS! is made possible the generous support of The Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation, members of the Disabilites Network of NYC and our audiences.

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In READ MY LIPS Carla -- an overqualified, unappreciated (and deaf) employee of a property development firm -- is often ridiculed by co-workers while they take credit for her best work. In time, Carla manages to get Paul, an unskilled ex-con, hired as an assistant, despite his complete lack of office experience. After Paul uses his 'talents' to reclaim a file a co-worker has lifted from Carla’s desk, the favor is repaid as Carla and her aptitude reading lips sets in motion a plan to exact revenge against a crooked loan shark.

READ MY LIPS works as both an unconventional romantic drama and a thriller because the extreme care taken to develop the characters. This attention makes Carla and Paul exceptionally real — imperfect, ignoble, introverted, each with something to learn from the other.  Carla and Paul not only form an alliance, they ultimately renew themselves by ripping off unsavory characters.

The film is a rare and unusually successful cinematic hybrid; a terrific suspense yarn that cleverly makes use of Carla’s condition and skill but refuses to rely on stereotypes or simplistic blueprints toward achieving its satisfying, mind-bending conclusion.  

Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco chronicle reported: 

“Read My Lips is not a heist film, a thriller, a twisted romance, a film noir or a character study, but a unique concoction that bends all these genres to its vision.”

Roger Ebert of AT THE MOVIES and the Chicago Sun-Times wrote:

“Read My Lips is not about deafness, lip-reading, crime or sex, but about … discovery; the plot simply provides the rails on which it rides.”

Jonathan Foreman of the New York Post reported:

“Read My Lips isn't just scary, charming and delightfully unpredictable - it's also smarter and subtler than any new movie out there.”

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disTHIS! movies, talkback sessions and related events are open to the public. $5 donation. In French with English Subtitles. ASL interpretation and audio description available upon request. Space is wheelchair accessible. There is a cash bar for drinks, but seating is limited to the first 65 people! Screenings are regularly filled to capacity.

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