The Lovers [Les Amants] (Original screenplay for the 1958 film) by Louis Malle (director); Dominique Vivant (novel); Louise de Vilmorin (screenwriter); Jeanne Moreau, Alain Cuny, Jean-Marc Bory (starring) - 1958

Paris: Nouvelles Editions de Films, 1958. French language draft script for the 1958 film.

Based on the 1777 erotic novel "Point de Lendemain" by Dominique Vivant, released in the US as "The Lovers."

Louis Malle's second film, about a wealthy woman who becomes bored with both her emotionally distant husband and her lover, and abruptly leaves them both to take up with a younger man she just met. After its released in the US, the film became the subject of a landmark First Amendment case before the Supreme Court, where Justice Potter Stewart, in declaring the film not obscene, issued the immortal phrase "I know it when I see it" in regards to what constitutes pornographic material.

Set in and shot on location in Paris, Dijon, Burgundy, and the Cote-d'Or, all in France.

Tan untitled wrappers. Title page present, with credits for director Louis Malle and screenwriter Louise de Vilmorin. 154 leaves, with last page of text numbered 145. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine with faint toning at the edges, wrapper Very Good, front wrapper detached and held by binding tape along spine, brittle with some chipping and closed tears, staple bound.

Criterion Collection 429.