Masturbation, pedophilia and incest seem like topics intended to shock and outrage an audience, but not in Louis Malle’s hands. In what’s essentially a coming-of-age romp inspired by his own childhood ...

Yet Malle’s mockery of provincial conservatism never meant that he entirely renounced its values–as the hero of his 1971 tale of incest, Murmur of the Heart, remarks, “Blasphemy has no thrill for ...

Louis Malle’s critically acclaimed Murmur of the Heart gracefully combines elements of comedy, drama, and autobiography in a candid portrait of a precocious adolescent boy’s sexual maturation. Both ...

Lea Massari, the Italian actress and European cinema icon famous for her roles in Michelangelo Antonioni‘s L’Avventura (1960), Dino Risi’s A Difficult Life (1961) and Louis Malle’s Murmur of the Heart ...

One of Malle’s best films, this truthful and tender semi-autobiographical work set in Dijon in 1954, during the Vietnamese war, is a coming-of-age story in which 15-year-old Laurent (marvelously ...