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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.
Movie rating: 7.6 / 10 (9749)
Directed by: Louis Malle
Writer credits: Louis Malle
Cast: Lea Massari - Benoît Ferreux - Daniel Gélin - Michael Lonsdale - Ave Ninchi
AKA: Le souffle au coeur, Dearest Heart Dearest Love, Dearest Love, Szmery w sercu, Herzflimmern
