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Directed by LOUIS MALLE Screenplay by LOUIS MALLE and PATRICK MODIANO
It is one of the few blatant moments in the film, which is otherwise scrupulously shaded and controlled. Most impressively, Director Louis Malle (Phantom India) does not soften or sentimentalize Lucien, neither judges nor justifies him. Malle's voice is hard and even, his attitude toward his young protagonist...
The rigor of Malle's portrait of the youth, in fact, makes the movie a little distant. Malle was not after the kind of shattering catharsis that Vittorio de Sica, working with similar material, achieved in The Garden of the Finzi-Continis. Lucien is understandable but not especially likable...
Malle is too tough-minded to grant Lucien similar privileges. Though he flees the Germans, there will be no es cape for him. The events in which he co operated so callowly return to savage him. Throughout, Malle has implied that occupied France was full of Luciens of every age...
Murmur of the Heart is a comedy about the French bourgeoisie by the eclectic Louis Malle, light but not a triviality. The after-effects include at least fifteen minutes of one of those cartoon grins, like that on the mouse who is starstruck after getting hit by a sledgehammer--pure...