Murmur of the Heart - Criterion Collection
by Louis Malle
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Actor: Ave Ninchi, Beno?t Ferreux, Daniel G?lin, Lea Massari, Michael LonsdaleDirector: Louis Malle
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 118 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-03-28
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Criterion
Movie Reviews of Murmur of the Heart - Criterion Collection
Movie Review: Annoyingly coy & phony
Summary: 1 Stars
Malle was a master at anticipating the expectations of his audiences & giving them what they wanted with heaps & dollops of extra whipped cream & corn syrup. This films rings false from the first scene of the snotty schoolboys cutely scamming strangers on the street for contributions for war wounded then cutely stealing a Charlie Parker LP (& endlessly babbling on like future jazz criteeks on the wonders of modern jazz) then cutely stealing from their very sexy mom (it's a Malle movie - all women are sexy) then cutely & coyly pretending to compare their sexual endowments. And on & on goes Malle as though auditioning for membership in Hollywood jocularity & titillation.
No Catcher in the Rye this.
Summary of Murmur of the Heart - Criterion Collection
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 (including incestuous 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.Art House & International DVD Video
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