''Words in Blue'' (original title: ''Les Mots bleus'') is a 2005 French

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adapted from the novel ''Leur histoire'' by French author

Dominique Mainard Dominique Mainard is a French translator of English novels, short story writer and novelist. She was born in Paris, France, in 1967 and grew up in the region of Lyon, and spent five years in the United States. She won the 2009 Prix des Libraires ( ...

. The film was adapted and directed by

Alain Corneau Alain Corneau (7 August 1943 – 30 August 2010) was a French film director and writer. Corneau was born in Meung-sur-Loire, Loiret. Originally a musician, he worked with Costa-Gavras as an assistant, which was also his first opportunity to work ...

Plot

Clara, (

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), works in a birdshop. She is concerned about her

deaf-mute Deaf-mute is a term which was used historically to identify a person who was either deaf and used sign language or both deaf and could not speak. The term continues to be used to refer to deaf people who cannot speak an oral language or have som ...

daughter Anna, (Camille Gauthier), whom she is bringing up on her own. She has never spoken a single word. Clara herself is illiterate. Ever since her grandmother Baba, whom she adored, had been the victim of an attack when she was reading her a story, she has always refused to learn to read and write. Now that the silence of her daughter Anna is causing her to be bullied by her peers, Clara feels obliged to withdraw her from her school, and to enrol her in a school for the deaf-mute, run by Vincent, (

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). Vincent, the principal, suggests giving his new pupil particular classes to teach her

Sign Language Sign languages (also known as signed languages) are languages that use the visual-manual modality to convey meaning, instead of spoken words. Sign languages are expressed through manual articulation in combination with non-manual markers. Sign l ...

, and so facilitate Anna's integration.

Cast

as Clara *

as Vincent * Camille Gauthier as Anna * Mar Sodupe as Muriel * Cédric Chevalme as Clara's husband * Isabelle Petit-Jacques as Anna's teacher * Gabrielle Lopes Benites as Muriel's daughter * Louis Pottier as Muriel's son * Esther Gorintin as Baba * Clarisse Baffier as Young Clara

References

External links

* 2005 films French drama films 2000s French-language films French Sign Language films 2005 drama films Catalan-language films Films about deaf people Films based on French novels Films directed by Alain Corneau 2000s French films {{2000s-France-film-stub