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Murmur of the Heart

  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • Romance

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.

Cast

Lea MassariClara Chevalier
Benoît FerreuxLaurent Chevalier
Daniel GélinCharles Chevalier
Michael LonsdaleFather Henri
Ave NinchiAugusta
Gila von WeitershausenFreda

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