Murmur of the Heart

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7.5

94%

IMDb Votes: 11,056Open on IMDb

Rated: R

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.

Country:

FranceItalyWest Germany

Language:

FrenchLatinItalianEnglishGreekAncient (to 1453)

Runtime: 118 min

Awards: Nominated for 1 Oscar. 2 wins & 3 nominations total

Box Office: $1,160,784