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“I was scared of it. I thought it was a little too close, too personal, too intimate...I realized that if I wanted to be honest with what I had written, I should go all the way.”
-Louis Malle
Original Title
Le Souffle au Coeur
Synopsis
Louis Malle’s critically acclaimed film gracefully combines elements of comedy,drama,and autobiography in a candid portrait of a precocious adolescent boy’s sexual maturation.Both shocking and deeply poignant,this is one of the finest coming-of-age films ever made. Laurent,fifteen years old, lives in Dijon in a very bourgeois,conservative family.The only member he feels close to is his mother,Clara,a free-spirited Italian woman whom he worships. Laurent is at the age where one rebels—the age of sexual discoveries;the end of innocence. After contracting a heart-condition on returning from a camp,Laurent and his mother go stay together at a spa-hotel...
