Le souffle au coeur

IMDb 7.5/10  (11 023)

RFF 7.5/10  (45)

SC 9.3/10 

Year: 1971
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Actors and Actresses: Benoît Ferreux
Tags: bathing boy
Review: This is a jolly coming-of-age story about a 15-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 (including incestuous 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. - Tim Horrigan, IMDb
Movie added at: 08.05.2020