Words in Blue (original title: Les Mots bleus) is a 2005 French drama film adapted from the novel Leur histoire by French author Dominique Mainard. The film was adapted and directed by Alain Corneau. Plot Clara, (Sylvie Testud), works in a birdshop. She is concerned about her deaf-mute 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, (Sergi López). Vincent, the principal, suggests giving his new pupil particular classes to teach her Sign Language, and so facilitate Anna's integration. Cast Sylvie Testud as Clara Sergi López 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