Word: murmured
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...laughter so easy in such a difficult situation? It isn't that The Murmur of the Heart is the kind of comedy that permits easy nonsequiturs, and it isn't that the advent of Laurent's girl-friend is preferable for everyone concerned to Laurent's incestuous leanings toward his mother. That laughter is by no means inevitable within the context of the film, but Malle's real point is the film's peculiar anti-Romantic heresy. Subtly suggesting the possibility of all kinds of psychological traps for its intelligent and very sensitive adolescent hero (including homosexuality, transvestism, a penchant...
Taking these discoveries seriously, we expect to see their complex effects on the boy, and indeed there is at least one: he develops a heart-murmur while away from his mother at scout camp. The sudden illness separates him from an ardently admiring young friend and sends him home to be nursed by Mama. The doctor's prescription, conveniently enough, is a rest-cure at Bourbon Les Bains, a typically French resort for the well-to-do where the guests nurse their hypochondria with daily doses of mineral water and gossip. At the baths, Mother's attempts at strict motherliness...
...disability is more common among interns, residents and assistant department chiefs than it is among new medical students and professors. The symptoms are easily recognized. In a typical case, the chief of a hospital service will examine a patient and announce that he hears, for instance, a heart murmur. None of the interns or residents accompanying him can detect it until the senior resident-who has much influence over the trainees' futures-announces: "I hear it." Then the disease spreads rapidly. One after another, the members of the chief's party will report that they too hear...
...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 murmur, which requires prolonged and restful treatment...
Sewing and Patching. Thompson's narrative is heightened by a personal drama: his son Scott, then nine, had a heart murmur. One of the Houston heart men discovered that Scott's was a false murmur that would clear up within a few years. That is an exuberant moment that any parent can share. By contrast, the book's most flat and chilling passage recounts a dinner conversation with Dr. Grady Hallman. an associate of Cooley's. "Excellence comes out of experience and nothing else." said Hallman. "I know a lot of people who are dead today...