Lip-Reading Her Way Through An Ingenious French Thriller

Jacques Audiard’s Read My Lips ( Sur Mes Lèvres ), from a screenplay by Mr. Audiard and Tonino Benacquista, changes genres in midstream to transform a low-voltage love story involving two likable misfits into a high-stakes thriller loaded with fear, passion, courage, suspense and ingenuity. It is just about the best movie I have seen Read More

The Lion in the Living Room: Uproar Over a Rug

I never realized my husband was so attached to our living-room rug-or could even have told you what color it was-until I brought a new one home on trial. All of a sudden, he was waxing nostalgic-practically teary-eyed-over the now-fraying and threadbare red carpet we’d had made when we bought the apartment in 1975. It Read More