Murmur of the Heart 1971
Long Time: 118min Year: 1974 (IMDB - 7.9)
Release Date: 28 April 1971 (France)
Category: Movies teensploitation genre
Alternative name: Dearest Love
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Description: 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.
