Murmur of the Heart
1971Original title: Le Souffle au cœur
“A souffle of a movie!”
1h 58mDramaComedy
3.5
224 ratingsSynopsis
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.
- Director
- Louis Malle
- Languages
- French
- Cast
- Lea Massari, Benoît Ferreux, Marc Winocourt, Fabien Ferreux, Daniel Gélin, Michael Lonsdale, Ave Ninchi, Annie Savarin, Gila von Weitershausen, Micheline Bona