- HD 1080
- Runtime: 118m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: fr
- Country: France, Germany, Italy
- Director: Louis Malle
- Stars: Lea Massari, Benoît Ferreux, Marc Winocourt, Fabien Ferreux, Daniel Gélin
- keywords: jazz, sanatorium, incest, shoplifting, 1950s, boy scout, resort sex, mother son relationship, teenage protagonist, bastille day, dijon france
- Production_studio: Nouvelles Éditions de Films (NEF), Marianne Productions, Franz Seitz Filmproduktion, Vides Cinematografica
- Slogan: A souffle of a movie!
- providers: Criterion Channel
- The Murmur of the Heart is featured in the top rankings of 1971
- #20 in Top Comedy Movies of 1971
- #35 in Top Drama Movies of 1971
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.