Murmur of the Heart ( Le Souffle au coeur ) ( Dearest Love )

Murmur of the Heart (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Le Souffle au coeur
Alternate Title: Dearest Love
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival
Oscar Academy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 4 )

Running Time:
123 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu

Movie filmed in 1971 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Louis Malle

Written By:
Louis Malle

Actors:
Lea Massari ..... Clara Chevalier
Benoît Ferreux ..... Laurent Chevalier
Daniel Gélin ..... Charles Chevalier
Michael Lonsdale ..... Father Henri
Ave Ninchi ..... Augusta
Gila von Weitershausen ..... Freda (the prostitute)
Fabien Ferreux ..... Thomas
Marc Winocourt ..... Marc
Micheline Bona ..... Aunt Claudine
Henri Poirier ..... Uncle Leonce
Liliane Sorval ..... Fernande
Corinne Kersten ..... Daphne
Eric Walter ..... Hubert
François Werner ..... Man at Bastille Day party
René Bouloc

Synopsis:

Told with fondness and precision, and set in France at the time of the IndoChina War (which later became an American problem known as the Vietnam War), this controversial feature handles teen coming-of-age, sexuality and even incest with a gentleness that disappointed the prurient and shocked the conservative. This is one of director Louis Malle's finest films: others include The Fire Within and Au Revoir Les Enfants. Laurent (Benoit Ferreux) is 14 years old and anxious to lose his virginity. However, he has a very close family circle, and, between the family and school, he is too closely watched to get anywhere. He makes the most of an opportunity to neck with the girls at his older brothers' party and later almost gets to lose his virginity in a bordello, but his boisterously drunken brothers interrupt him. His real opportunity arises while his mother takes him for a rest-cure for his heart murmur at a very conventional spa.

Louis Malle spawned controversy with this semi-autobiographical film of 1971 set in Dijon. It concerns the sensual initiation of a precocious, academic, wealthy French adolescent (Benoit Ferreux), a process that's assisted at one crucial point by his sensuous Italian mother (Lea Massari), while undergoing treatment for a heart murmur. Its spirit is vivacious, and probably goes closer than all his features to capturing the refinement of the French New Wave. The romping soundtrack featuring Charlie Parker and Sidney Bechet bolsters the joie de vivre!

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 09 August, 2006.

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