Murmur of the Heart
Le Souffle au coeur
A souffle of a movie!
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.
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Cast
Lea Massari
Clara Chevalier
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Benoît Ferreux
Laurent Chevalier
Daniel Gélin
Charles Chevalier
Michael Lonsdale
Father Henri
Ave Ninchi
Augusta
Gila von Weitershausen
Freda (the prostitute)
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Fabien Ferreux
Thomas
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Marc Winocourt
Marc
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Micheline Bona
Aunt Claudine
Henri Poirier
Uncle Léonce
Ricardo Aronovich
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