Murmur of the Heart
R
01 hours 58 minutes
- Benoît Ferreux, Daniel Gélin, Lea Massari
- Louis Malle
- Drama, Comedy
- October 17, 1971
- French, Latin, Italian, English, Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
- 7.5
Synopsis
This is a jolly coming-of-age story about a 14-year-old boy named Laurent Chevalier who is growing up in bourgeois surroundings in Dijon, France. This is France in the mid-1950s rather than America in the 1990s. Thus, Laurent is unharmed by events which would irreparably shatter the self-esteem of a modern American adolescent: he gets drunk, he smokes, he has sex, he is smothered by his mother, he is ignored by his father, a priest makes a pass at him, he gets rheumatoid fever, etc. There’s enough scandalous behavior in this film to make 100 made-for-TV movies, and yet this is a very happy and oddly innocent tale.
