Max mon amour [Max My Love]

Nagisa Oshima (screenwriter, director)
Jean-Claude Carrière (screenwriter)
Charlotte Rampling, Anthony Higgins, Victoria Abril, Anne-Marie Besse (starring)

Paris: Greenwich, 1986. Two Draft scripts for the 1986 French film. One script in English, the other in French.

A British diplomat's wife takes a chimpanzee named Max to be her lover. Nominated for a Palme d'Or. Screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière, producer Serge Silberman and actress Milena Vukotic all worked with Luis Buñuel, and accordingly, brought much of Buñuel's surrealist sensibility to the film.

Set and shot on location in Paris.

French script:

Red titled wrappers. Title page present, with credits for director and screenwriter Nagisa shima and screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière. 150 leaves, with last page of text numbered 139. Xerographic duplication, printed on rectos and versos. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, with a white spiral binding.

English script:

Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present, with credits for director and screenwriter Nagisa shima and screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière. 140 leaves, with last page of text numbered 139. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, bound with two silver clasps.


[Book #142133]