Word: massari
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Murmur of the Heart. Louis Malle's ripe, witty sketchy of indiscreet bourgeois charm in 50's France is far more deeply thought out than other period pieces on adolescence. Lea Massari plays the complex voluptuary of a mother. As other French directors stagnate and repeat themselves, Mallee may yet emerge as the most original and least gimmicky of the bunch. Be wary: the film plays alongside Heat, the latest by Paul Morrissey (Flesh, Trash). His second stand as surrogate Andy Warhol is full of grotesque actors and grotesque sex which boil down not to the grotesque...
Murmur of the Heart. Louis Malle's ripe, witty sketch of indiscreet bourgeois charm in 50's France is far more deeply thought out than other period pieces on adolescence. Lea Massari plays complex voluntary of a mother. As other French directors stagnate and repeat themselves, Malle may yet emerge as the most original and least gimmicky of the bunch. Be wary: the film plays alongside Heat, the latest by Paul Morrissey (Flesh, Trash). His second stand as surrogate Andy Warhol is full of grotesque actors and grotesque sex which boil down not to the grotesque but to the merely...
Laurent (Benoit Ferreux) is the youngest son of a prosperous Dijon gynecologist (Daniel Gelin) and his Italian wife (Lea Massari). Laurent's brothers are well-bred juvenile delinquents, but despite a pronounced affection for mischief, Laurent is different. Hardly into adolescence, he reads Camus and writes essays on existentialism that vex his schoolmaster-priest (Michel Lonsdale). Father Henri further advances his pupil's education by making tentative homosexual advances during confession, and Laurent's brothers chip in to buy him a bout with a tolerant whore. Laurent-perhaps because of all this frenetic activity-develops a heart...