A look back at Louis Malle’s Masterpiece ‘Murmur of the Heart’
Murmur of the Heart (Le souffle au coeur) Directed by Louis Malle France, 1971 Louis Malle’s first narrative feature-film was 1958’s Elevator to the Gallows. A jazzy, contribution to the late-noir period it placed Malle conveniently between the too-cool gangster pictures of Jean-Pierre Melville and the too-cool New Wave pictures of Jean-Luc Godard. Instead of …