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M IS FOR THE MILLION THINGS SHE GAVE ME

Today's NYTimes Best 1176 Film was Louis Malle's

La Souffle au coeur / Murmur of the Heart (1971)

This wonderful family picture is all French in that it deals with incest and keeps it very light and, indeed, nice!

It is a great film to watch. The family is charming and the mother is wonderful—Lea Massari.

The central character is her 15 year old son who is just on the cusp of adulthood.

The films skips and hops through a year in the family's life. It is frothy and funny, and yet, dead serious at the same time. A balance that Malle is quite good at maintaining.

It is a classic and this restoration is perfect in every way.

This gets a 5 out of Netflix5.