| Murmur of the Heart | |
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| Directed by | Louis Malle |
| Produced by | Vincent Malle Claude Nedjar |
| Written by | Louis Malle |
| Starring | Benoît Ferreux, Lea Massari |
| Music by | Gaston Frèche Charlie Parker Henri Renaud |
| Cinematography | Ricardo Aronovich |
| Editing by | Suzanne Baron |
| Distributed by |  Orion Classics |
| Release date(s) |  April 28, 1971 October 20, 1971 |
| Running time | 118 min |
| Country | France Italy West Germany |
| Language | French |
Murmur of the Heart (French: Le souffle au cœur) is a 1971 French motion picture by French director Louis Malle that tells a coming of age story about a 14-year-old boy who is growing up in bourgeois surroundings in Dijon, France.
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At the beginning, the film shows the adventures of the boy in school and his first sexual experience at a brothel. When the boy is found to have a heart murmur after a bout of scarlet fever, he goes with his mother to a sanatorium, where a series of circumstances lead to a sexual encounter with his mother. Jazz music by Charlie Parker (a member of the cast) and Dizzy Gillespie and books by Bataille, Proust and Camus feature prominently in the film.
Murmur of the Heart was nominated for "Best Writing Original Screenplay" in the 1973 Academy Awards. It was also in competition, in the French part of the official selection, at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival.[1]
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  | Festival de Cannes: Murmur of the Heart - Festival de Cannes - Du 13 au 24 mai 2009 |
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