Murmur of the Heart

This loosely plotted coming-of-age tale follows the life of 15-year-old Laurent Chevalier as he stumbles his way over the burgeoning swell of adolescence in 1950s France. After having his first sexual experience with a prostitute and dodging the lips of a priest, Chevalier contracts a case of scarlet fever. When the fever leaves him with a heart murmur, Chevalier is placed in a sanatorium, along with his over-attentive and adulterous mother.

• Louis MalleDirector
• Louis MalleWriter

• Lea MassariClara Chevalier
• Benoît FerreuxLaurent Chevalier
• Marc WinocourtMarc Chevalier
• Fabien FerreuxThomas Chevalier
• Daniel GélinCharles Chevalier
• Michael LonsdaleFather Henri
• Ave NinchiAugusta
• Annie SavarinCook
• Gila von WeitershausenFreda, prostitute
• Micheline BonaAunt Claudine
• Henri PoirierUncle Léonce
• Liliane SorvalFernande