Murmur of the Heart

  • 1971

    Release Date

  • January 1st, 1971

  • Runtime

  • 118 minutes

  • Synopsis

  • 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 Massari - Clara Chevalier,   Benoît Ferreux - Laurent Chevalier,   Marc Winocourt - Marc Chevalier,   Fabien Ferreux - Thomas Chevalier,   Daniel Gélin - Charles Chevalier,   Michael Lonsdale - Father Henri,   Ave Ninchi - Augusta,   Annie Savarin - Cook,   Gila von Weitershausen - Freda, prostitute,   Micheline Bona - Aunt Claudine,   Henri Poirier - Uncle Léonce,   Liliane Sorval - Fernande,   Jacqueline Chauvaud - Hélène,   Corinne Kersten - Daphné,   René Bouloc - Man at Bastille Day party,   Jacques Gheusi - Hotel Receptionist,   Jacques Sereys - Doctor,   Yvon Lec - Father Superior,   Bernadette Robert - Annie,   Eric Walter - Laurent's Friend,   François Werner - Hubert,   Jean-Pierre Pessoz - Soldier,   Éric Burnelli - Maitre d'Hotel (uncredited),   Nicole Carrière - Mother (uncredited),   Michel Charrel - Disquaire (uncredited),   Huguette Faget - Mother (uncredited),   Isabelle Kloucowski - Madeleine (uncredited),   Lia Wajntal - Mother (uncredited)     

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