Die Vorleserin (1988)

• 72%
• 1988
• Drama
• Komödie
• Miou-Miou
• Patrick Chesnais
• Pierre Dux

A multi-faceted film based on Raymond Jean's novel "Die Leserin". 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, Konstanz decides to do the same. Here the film takes on a kaleidoscopic effect as the lives of Konstanz 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 kunden become tangled with the stories she reads. The film is interspersed with readings from well-known literary sources as verschiedene as, amongst others, Baudelaire, Duras, Tolstoi, Lewis Carroll and Sade's "120 days...