Le sourd dans la ville [Deaf to the City]

Angele Coutu, Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge, Sophie Leger, Han Masson (starring)
Mireille Dansereau (director, screenwriter)
Marie-Claire Blais (author)
Michele Mailhot, Jean-Joseph Tremblay (screenwriters)

Quebec City: Radio-Quebec, 1987. Draft script for the 1987 French film, seen here under the English title "Deaf to the City." Text in English.

Based on the 1979 novel by Marie-Claire Blais. A wealthy woman's husband leaves her so she moves into a dilapidated boarding house where she befriends the optimistic landlord and tends to a terminally ill, deaf young man.

Set in Quebec.

Black and white titled illustrated wrappers. Title page present, with credits for screenwriters A. Mazouz and Sylvie Melancon, author Marie-Claire Blais, and translator Raymond Y. Chamberlain. 119 leaves, with last page of text numbered 114. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Very Good plus, wrapper Very Good plus, with a spiral binding.


[Book #141282]