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Deaf to the City (1987)
Directed by Mireille Dansereau
Drama · 1h 37m
The folks who populate the rundown hotel in this story have all come there from someplace which offered a modicum of hope. Gloria, who runs the place, earns most of her money as a stripper. She lives there with her two daughters and a son with an untreated brain tumor. Charlie, who is forever in and out of jail, is Gloria's sometime lover. A recent check-in is there hoping she can work up the courage to commit suicide, since her rich doctor husband ran off and left her. Another resident is Tim, who keeps company with his dog and his booze in equal measure. A schoolteacher comes by from time to time, hoping to do these people some good, but in choosing this lot to work with, she proves to be just as much of a loser as the rest of them.
Cast
Angèle Coutu
Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge
Sophie Léger
Han Masson
Béatrice Picard
Pierre Thériault
Yves Allaire
Marie Charlebois
Alain Gendreau
Lisette Guertin
Crew
- Director
- Mireille Dansereau
- Writer
- Michel Mailhot, Jean-Joseph Tremblay
- Novel
- Marie-Claire Blais
- Director of Photography
- Michel Caron
- Original Music Composer
- Ginette Bellavance
Details
- Original title
- Le sourd dans la ville
- Release date
- 1987-06-28
- Runtime
- 1h 37m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- FR
- Spoken languages
- French
- Countries
- Canada
- Production
- Téléfilm Canada, Societe du Cinema du Quebec Maison de Quatres Arts