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India Press Store - Murmur of the Heart
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List Price: $19.99
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Manufacturer: Orion Home Video
Starring: Lea Massari, Benoît Ferreux, Daniel Gélin, Michael Lonsdale, Ave Ninchi
Directed By: Louis Malle
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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786301566643
Format: Color
ISBN: 6301566645
Label: Orion Home Video
Manufacturer: Orion Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publication Date: 1990-03
Publisher: Orion Home Video
Release Date: 1994-06-29
Running Time: 118
Studio: Orion Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1971-10-17
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Summary: Great movie
Comment: Great movie has a great story and then builds up to a great ending. Good acting and just the right length of a movie.
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Summary: Somewhat entertaining, erotic, and ridiculous
Comment: A movie about sexual taboo and the needs of a 14 year old boy surrounded with a dysfunctional family. Although the movie is provocative, most of us know the needs and wants of a 14 year old boy, (we were all 14 at one time) but I guess sex education wasn't taught in France in 1971. One reviewer explained that the movie is very unrealistic and I agree. Laurent Chevalier is a seriously disturbed person who does unusual things. Never mind the fact that he lusts his own mother; Luarent is rude, obnoxious, and just flat out stupid just like the rest of his family. Not only do I consider that offensive but unrealistic as well, and the movie doesn't have to be realistic, it just has to make sense. This is just my opinion but if a movie doesn't make sense than I consider that a major turn off. On the positive side though the acting is decent, it's somewhat entertaining, and his mother (Lea Massari) is absolutely stunning.
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Summary: Very Modern
Comment: This film was made in the 70s and touches on so many topics that would have made it a banned film in the US. For it's time, it is a masterpiece and a great film altogether. It's very edgy, but what do you expect from a French film shot in the 70s?
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Summary: Annoyingly coy & phony
Comment: Malle was a master at anticipating the expectations of his audiences & giving them what they wanted with heaps & dollops of extra whipped cream & corn syrup. This films rings false from the first scene of the snotty schoolboys cutely scamming strangers on the street for contributions for war wounded then cutely stealing a Charlie Parker LP (& endlessly babbling on like future jazz criteeks on the wonders of modern jazz) then cutely stealing from their very sexy mom (it's a Malle movie - all women are sexy) then cutely & coyly pretending to compare their sexual endowments. And on & on goes Malle as though auditioning for membership in Hollywood jocularity & titillation.
No Catcher in the Rye this.
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Summary: You cannot be serious
Comment: OK i'll give it three stars because I was mildly entertained and intrigued with the concept of an Awkward skinny dweeb trying to get it on with his hot estranged mom with he whom he was reunited with during a vacation getaway in some rich snobby french resort..Now as for the noticeable flaws to this movie, What stood out was how physically awkward and uncoordinated the son was with just about everything including his dancing and his overall approach to women. Even his diolouge with people was blunt, rude, and unrealistic. Then his constant perverted curiouslity toward his Mom made me come to the overall conclusion that this kid was seriously disturbed or perhaps borderline retarded. And finally toward the end, I just found it absurd that his mom found the concept of incest acceptable for a one time situation. Then the last scene portrays the whole family together having a big laugh as if the incident between the Mom and the Son will never emotionally scar either at any point of their lives. Common is this normal, may be for the french it is I guess.
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