Lacombe, Lucien
1974
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The boy is played by a nonactor, Benoit Ferreux, whose puzzlement about growing up, and whose admiration at the possibilities of life, remind us of young Jean-Pierre Leaud in Truffaut's "The 400 Blows" of a decade ago. The two movies deserve comparison in more ways than one. And yet "Murmur of the Heart" isn't really about the boy, but the mother.
Murmur of the Heart follows the French boy Laurent, almost-15. A precocious intellectual, he reads, gets good grades and is described by his mother as very sensitive. His mother, Clara, is sort of an opposite, an Italian anti-intellectual who never went to school and doesn't vote.
Murmur of the Heart Reviews. It's an enormously entertaining picture, presumably the gentlest and most endearing movie ever made about a boy who has sex with his mother. Full Review | Feb 4, 2022 ...
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Murmur of the Heart. This loosely plotted coming-of-age tale follows the life of 15-year-old Laurent Chevalier (Benoît Ferreux) as he stumbles his way over the burgeoning swell of adolescence in ...
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- Louis Malle
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- Lea Massari
Kids say: Not yet rated Rate movie. MURMUR OF THE HEART manages to be countercultural without being heavy-handed (unique especially for a film coming out in the early 1970s). It's also existential without being particularly bleak, and humorous in spite of scenes that still shock decades after its release. His head packed with jazz, literature ...
- Benoit Ferreux, Daniel Gelin, Lea Massari
- Louis Malle
- Criterion Collection
Murmur of the Heart. Murmur of the Heart ( French: Le souffle au cœur) is a 1971 French comedy-drama film written, produced and directed by Louis Malle. It stars Lea Massari, Benoît Ferreux and Daniel Gélin. Written as Malle's semi-autobiography, the film tells a coming-of-age story about a 14-year-old boy (Ferreux) growing up in bourgeois ...
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 ...
