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Murmur of the Heart
(1971)
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Murmur of the Heart
(1971)
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Lea Massari | ... |
Clara Chevalier
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Benoît Ferreux | ... |
Laurent Chevalier
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| Daniel Gélin | ... |
Charles Chevalier
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| Michael Lonsdale | ... |
Father Henri
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Ave Ninchi | ... |
Augusta
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Gila von Weitershausen | ... |
Freda (the prostitute)
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Fabien Ferreux | ... |
Thomas
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Marc Winocourt | ... | |
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Micheline Bona | ... |
Aunt Claudine
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Henri Poirier | ... |
Uncle Leonce
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Liliane Sorval | ... |
Fernande
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Corinne Kersten | ... |
Daphne
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Eric Walter | ||
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François Werner | ... |
Hubert
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René Bouloc | ... |
Man at Bastille Day party
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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. Written by Tim Horrigan <horrigan@aol.com>
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