Watch: Le souffle au cœur 1971 123movies, Full Movie Online – This is a jolly coming-of-age story about a 14-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..
Plot: 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.
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Marvelous Malle
Touching coming-of-age story focuses on the youngest of three sons of a French gynecologist and his wife in Paris in the 1950s. Malle does a wonderful job of showing the relationships between the family members, helped by fine acting by all, particularly Massari as the beautiful mother and Ferreux as the gawky 15-year old son. As with Malle’s “Pretty Baby,” issues of sexuality are handled without hangups, even if it involves children. It is well known that one of the central themes of this film is incest but rather than being disturbing or exploitative, it is presented in a surprisingly tender manner without being judgmental.
delightful, funny, touching classic
Laurent is the youngest, smartest, most sensitive of three boys in a wild bourgeois French family. His brothers are amoral and hysterical. His father could not be more uptight. And his mother is full of laughter, beautiful and irresistible.The brothers drink, steal, and even replace a valuable original painting just so they can watch their father’s reaction when they casually start cutting it to pieces during dinner.
This is the ultimate French counterculture movie. Somehow the way Laurent pleases himself with books and bebop recordings is simultaneously sophisticated and innocent.
The Charlie Parker score is mesmerizing. Some people won’t get it. Others will find it evokes everything wonderful about growing up and discovering yourself.
Original Language fr
Runtime 1 hr 58 min (118 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Comedy, Drama
Director Louis Malle
Writer Louis Malle
Actors Lea Massari, Benoît Ferreux, Daniel Gélin
Country France, Italy, West Germany
Awards Nominated for 1 Oscar. 2 wins & 3 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A
Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.66 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory Laboratoires Franay Tirages Cinematographiques (LTC), Paris, France, Paris-Studio-Cinéma, Paris, France
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm