Another French coming of age story – R. Swanson – New Mexico
I love a lot of Malle’s films but this isn’t one of them. I guess if you find a really awkward, ugly, rude, kid who does everything he can to be obnoxious, charming, then you’ll love this movie. We first meet Laurent begging money for the wounded soldiers in Indochina, but keeping the money for himself, then ripping off a record store, then trying to imitate his older brothers who are way ahead of him in crass behavior. Let’s see what mischief they can conjure up–eating communion wafers is too below him, save that for his fellow altar boy, drinking, smoking, having sex, stealing from their parents, being rude to the servant, the father and everyone else….If all of this strikes you as terribly charming…then this is your film. Oh yeah, a pedophile priest is in it, too.
Top it off with incest and there you have it. In the last scene everyone has a good laugh. Tres charmant, non? Non!
Image Entertainment Murmur of the Heart – (The Criterion Collection)
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