Murmur of the Heart

Name: Murmur of the Heart
Director: Louis Malle
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: 1971-04-27
Duration: 1 h 58 min
Rating: 7.007
Cast: Lea Massari, Benoît Ferreux, Marc Winocourt, Fabien Ferreux, Daniel Gélin

Directed by Louis Malle

Drama

Comedy

19711h 58m7.0

Overview

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.