Murmur of the Heart(Le souffle au cœur)
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France, Italy, West Germany · 1971
Rated R · 1h 58m
Director Louis Malle
Starring Lea Massari, Benoît Ferreux, Daniel Gélin, Michael Lonsdale
Genre Comedy, Drama
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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.
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