| Murmur of the heart AKA Le Souffle Au Coeur | |||||
| Criterion/Voyager (1970) | |||||
| Comedy, Drama, Romance | |||||
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| Michael Lonsdale | Father Henri | |
| Lea Massari | Clara Chevalier | |
| Benoît Ferreux | Laurent Chevalier | |
| Daniel Gélin | Charles Chevalier | |
| Ave Ninchi | Augusta | |
| Gila von Weitershausen | Freda | |
| Fabien Ferreux | Thomas | |
| Marc Winocourt | Marc | |
| Micheline Bona | Aunt Claudine | |
| Henri Poirier | Uncle Leonce | |
| Liliane Sorval | Fernande | |
| Corinne Kersten | Daphne | |
| Eric Walter | ||
| François Werner | Hubert | |
| René Bouloc | Man at Bastille Day party |
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| Producer | Vincent Malle
Claude Nedjar |
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| Writer | Louis Malle
Volker Schlöndorff |
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| Cinematography | Ricardo Aronovich
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| Musician | Gaston Frèche
Charlie Parker |
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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. |
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