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Murmur of the Heart

Cast

Lea Massari, Benoît Ferreux, Daniel Gélin, Michael Lonsdale View All


Crew

Louis Malle (Director), Louis Malle (Writer) View All

Release: Apr. 27th, 1971
Runtime: 1 hour, 58 minutes
This loosely plotted coming-of-age tale follows the life of 15-year-old Laurent Chevalier as he stumbles his way over the burgeoning swell of adolescence in 1950s France. After having his first sexual experience with a prostitute and dodging the lips of a priest, Chevalier contracts a case of scarlet fever. When the fever leaves him with a heart murmur, Chevalier is placed in a sanatorium, along with his over-attentive and adulterous mother.
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mark f
While spending some time at a hotel with his mother, the boy almost becomes obsessed with how perfect a female his mother is (as most boys do at some point), but when she realizes that he's "checking her out", she slaps him and makes it clear that it's just plain wrong.


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