Murmur of the Heart

Languages (7)

Original Title

Le souffle au coeur

Movie Facts

Status: Released

Runtime: 118

Budget: -

Revenue: -

Language: fr

Webpage: -

Release Info

1971-01-01
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1972-01-14
16

Plot Keywords

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This is a jolly coming-of-age story about a 15-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.