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Murmur of the Heart
Original Title
Le Souffle au Coeur...aka: Dearest Love- Director: Louis Malle
- Writer: Louis Malle
- Producer: Vincent Malle; Claude Nedjar
CGiii Comment
Nauseatingly precocious...
With Malle, the word masterpiece is used too often.
This is slightly unhinged, adolescent sex is the preoccupation...and, sex has never been so tedious...on and on and on it goes.
For those that claim this to be the masterpiece, it most certainly is not...take a reality pill and re-watch the last 20 minutes...quite, quite ridiculous.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
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.
Cast & Characters
Lea Massari as Clara Chevalier;
Benoit Ferreux as Laurent Chevalier;
Daniel Gelin as Charles Chevalier;
Michael Lonsdale as Father Henri;
Ave Ninchi as Augusta;
Gila von Weitershausen as Freda;
Fabien Ferreux as Thomas;
Marc Winocourt as Marc;
Micheline Bona as Aunt Claudine;
Henri Poirier as Uncle Leonce;
Liliane Sorval as Fernande;
Corinne Kersten as Daphne;
Eric Walter;
Francois Werner as Hubert;
Rene Bouloc as Man at Bastille Day party