Deaf to the City (1987)
1h 37m
Running Time
June 28, 1987Release Date
Plot.
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.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Yves Allaire
Actor
Marie Charlebois
Actress
Samuel Cholakian
Actor
Béatrice Picard
Florence
Angèle Coutu
Gloria
Pierre Thériault
Tim
Alain Gendreau
Actor
Pierre Germain
Actor
Details.
Release DateJune 28, 1987
Original NameLe sourd dans la ville
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 37m
Genres
Wiki.
Deaf to the City (French: Le sourd dans la ville) is a 1987 Canadian drama film, written and directed by Mireille Dansereau and based on the novel with the same name by Marie-Claire Blais. The film stars Angèle Coutu as Florence, a woman who moves into a seedy hotel in downtown Montreal after her husband leaves her, befriending the hotel's owner Gloria (Béatrice Picard) and her deaf son Mike (Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge).The film was entered into the main competition at the 44th edition of the Venice Film Festival.In his 2003 book A Century of Canadian Cinema, Gerald Pratley referred to it as "a bleak story to read, and an even bleaker film to watch".