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Dearest Love

7.6

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Original title

Le souffle au coeuraka

AKA

Murmur of the Heart

Year

1971

Running time

115 min.

Country

France

Director

Louis Malle

Screenwriter

Louis Malle

Cast

Music

Charlie Parker, Sidney Bechet

Cinematography

Ricardo Aronovich

Producer

Co-production France-Italy;

Marianne Productions, Vides Cinematografica, Nouvelles Éditions de Films

Genre

Drama | Teen/coming-of-age. 1950s

Synopsis

This is a jolly coming-of-age story about a 15-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.

Rankings Position

#39 Best French Movies of all time
#52 Best Movies of the '70s

Awards: 1971: Cannes Film Festival: Nominated for Palme d'Or (Best Film)

1972: Nominated for Oscar: Best Original Screenplay

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Critics' reviews

"It casts a fresh, vigorous and unclouded eye on adolescence as it really is rather than as we would like it to be."

Derek Malcolm: The Guardian

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Ranking Lists Position

88 My Favorite French Movies (37)

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Dearest Love

1971

Louis Malle

7.6

(3,441)