The Washington Post, May 19th, 1989
Excruciatingly literate, overdesigned and dramatically inert, Michel Deville's "La Lectrice" is an elaborate intellectual tease. Based on the novel by Raymond Jean, the film tells the story of a perky young woman named Constance, played by Miou-Miou, who one night crawls into bed with her lover and begins reading from "La Lectrice," by Raymond Jean, a book about a perky young woman named Marie, also played by Miou-Miou, who works as a professional reader. Perplexing, eh? The movie, which was written by Deville and his wife Rosalinde, is all done with gilded mirrors. Little more than a successi...
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