Best Original Screenplay1973 Film Fan Awards45th Academy Awards
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Best Original Screenplay Nominee

Murmur of the Heart (1971)

Ceremony Year: 1973Category: Best Original ScreenplayReleased: 1971
Nominated Talent & Credits
Louis Malle— Louis Malle
Synopsis / Overview

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.

Historical Academy Record
WRITING (Story and Screenplay--based on factual material or material not previously published or produced) — 45th Academy Awards (1973)

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