Le Souffle au cœur
This loosely plotted coming-of-age tale follows the life of 15-year-old Laurent Chevalier as he stumbles his way over the burgeoning swell of adolescence in 1950s France. After having his first sexual experience with a prostitute and dodging the lips of a priest, Chevalier contracts a case of scarlet fever. When the fever leaves him with a heart murmur, Chevalier is placed in a sanatorium, along with his over-attentive and adulterous mother.
- genus: Drama, Comedy
- Studio: Nouvelles Éditions de Films (NEF), Marianne Productions, Franz Seitz Filmproduktion, Vides Cinematografica
- keyword: jazz, sanatorium, incest, shoplifting, 1950s, boy scout, resort sex, mother son relationship, teenage protagonist, bastille day, dijon france
- cast: Lea Massari, Benoît Ferreux, Marc Winocourt, Fabien Ferreux, Daniel Gélin, Michael Lonsdale
