#Murmur of the Heart

[cosmonautroger]

#murmur of the heart #louis malle #1971

[byneddiedingo]

Benoît Ferreux, Ave Ninchi, Lea Massari, and Daniel Gélin in Murmur of the Heart (Louis Malle, 1971) Cast: Benoît Ferreux, Lea Massari, Daniel Gélin, Fabien Ferreux, Marc Winocourt, Ave Ninchi, Michael Lonsdale, Jacqueline Chauvaud, Corinne Kersten, Gila von Weitershausen. Screenplay: Louis Malle. Cinematography: Ricardo Aronovich. Production design: Jean-Jacques Caziot. There's a very dated play from 1953 called Tea and Sympathy by Robert Anderson that was made into an even more dated film by Vincente Minnelli in 1956 about a prep-school boy whose effeminacy makes him the target for gibes about homosexuality. To prove to the boy that he's a real man (i.e., not gay), the headmaster's wife offers herself sexually to the boy, telling him as she unbuttons her blouse and the curtain falls, "Years from now, when you speak of this, and you will, be kind." The film version, responding to Production Code strictures, adds a coda in which we learn that the boy is now married -- i.e., "cured." I thought of Tea and Sympathy as I watched Murmur of the Heart, whose very different problem -- adolescent horniness -- has a very different cure -- incest. Murmur of the Heart has always been something of a critical darling, from Pauline Kael's description of it as an "exhilarating high comedy" to Michael Sragow's essay for the Criterion Collection proclaiming that it "boasts the high spirits to match its high intelligence." And for the most part I concur: Lea Massari's joyously earthy performance as the mother is beautifully detailed, and Benoît Ferreux's endearing gawkiness brings the character of Laurent to full life. Louis Malle's script and direction keep things moving splendidly, never allowing things to bog down into "message moments" about priestly pedophilia -- years before that became the stuff of headlines -- or the parallels between the French involvement in Vietnam and that of the Americans, which was very much in the headlines when the film was made. And yet for me the ending of Murmur of the Heart seems as hollow as that of Tea and Sympathy. After having sex with his mother, the product of his attempt to console her for a breakup with her lover, he goes out to have sex with one of the girls he has met at the spa hotel where they're staying -- as if to prove that he's "straight," though in a different way from that of the Tea and Sympathy protagonist. There's an awkwardness in the setup -- the shocking taboo of incest -- for what turns into a feel-good ending gag: The whole family, including the mother, the cuckolded father, the bullying older brothers, and Laurent himself, join in uproarious laughter at the fact that Laurent has gotten laid. If what had gone before the incest scene had not been so splendidly wrought -- if, in fact, the incest scene itself hadn't been so tastefully handled -- would we really feel satisfied with this ending? For that matter, are we today really content with the film's ongoing sexism, including the scene with Laurent in the brothel and an uncommonly pretty prostitute? Would anyone ever dare to make a comedy that concluded with a girl whose quest to lose her virginity ends with her having sex with her father? Or is it that what makes Murmur of the Heart a successful film is that it raises all these questions without belaboring us with them? It's a virtual catalog of all of the social and sexual hangups that continue to make growing up such a trial. That it achieves this with, yes, "high spirits" and without preachiness may be its real virtue.

#Murmur of the Heart #Louis Malle #Benoît Ferreux #Ave Ninchi #Lea Massari #Daniel Gélin

[sidsforeverhome]

Black 🐈‍⬛ Cat Appreciation Day My Beautiful Boy ❤️

#cats #cats of tumblr #kitty #animals #senior cat #black cats #catlover #heart murmur #pet lovers #pets #kindnessmatters #always be kind #black cat appreciation day

[billystorm]

some paintings of my cat. his name is andy

#he got diagnosed with heart failure #he's only 4 years old. its congenital #we knew he had a murmur but didn't think it was anything. alas #cat #cat art #non wc art

[elisaenglish]

Drink, Mina. Join me in eternal life.

#bram stocker's dracula #winona ryder #mina murray #patterns of distraction #all eternal things #love in a time of... #a murmur of fire #heart of darkness #feel you on the inside #flesh and blood #immortal beloved #1992 #elisa english #elisaenglish

[3heartmind3]

It's very short recording I know, but it's very interesting how murmur is extremely audible. Enjoy!

Waiting comments below or dm.💔

#cardiophilia #cardiophile #heartbeat #cardio #fast heartbeat #heart murmur

[willowser]

WILLOWWWW i love love love your dad!bakugou stuff 😫 like omg i just can't get enough of it. also i'm not sure if you've ever done anything like this before so sorry if you have, but imagine bakugou taking his little girl to the zoo for the first time 🥺 and she's just so excited over all the animals!!

omg how cute 🥺 girl dad bakugou has a little home built right in my heart and in my head, i love it so much, i think about them constantly !! 🥺 but !! that's actually so interesting 🥺

because — i can't imagine that bakugou cares any specific way about going to the zoo; like sure, he guesses that he'll go ?? if that's what you wanna do ?? not something he would propose on his own but it's like !! 🥺 getting to witness his daughter in that environment, for the first time 🥺 not something he really thought about, but the pure joy on her face when she's seeing giraffes and elephants and all the animals that are in her little story, learn-to-read books 🥺 and the aquarium where she gets to see all the fish 🥺 and she's just so enamored by how close she can get to see them !! 🥺 how fun !! 🥺

or she wants a soft stuffed monkey that she carries with her everywhere, or some a little headband that looks like fox ears 🥺 gets a lion cookie 🥺 HOW CUTE like this isn't something he thought about doing, but he gets there and so quickly realizes, like, this is new to her ??? this is incredible and amazing and something she's never experienced in her little life, and how lucky he is to get to experience it with her THAT'S WHAT BEING A DAD IS WAAAHHHH 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🩷✨️

#cw children #this is so cute 🥺 #at first he's like ??? okay i guess isn’t she kind of young to care about the zoo ?? #but then yall get there and she's so excited and holding his hand and he just 🥺 quietly watches her the whole time 🥺 #HE THINKS HE'S A BUFFOON 🥺🥺 OFC IT'S ABOUT THE MAKING THE MEMORY WITH HER WAAAHHH #this actually warms my heart so much how sweet #and he's so annoying and shy but he's holding her and murmuring in her ear like 'and what sound does a lion make ?' #and then she does a RAWWRR and swipes her hand through the air like little claws and SHE JUST LOOKS SO CUTE AKFBRJAKAK #okay goodbye i need to cry face down on the floor for a sec #✿ ask willow #✿ thoughts: bakugou #✿ theme: dad bakugou

[her-penetrating-soul]

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🤍 ‿⚘Passing throughout life, I find myself inhaling the sweet aromas. It takes me to a place of reminiscing of long ago. A scent of tenderness. It always lures me to the moment I hold you in my arms. I kissed your forehead. I wrapped myself into you. A palace of everlasting bliss. Our eyes waltzed to their own hymns. Our hands grasped one another. Our fingers entwined tightly. I still remember your eyes glaring at me with a smile. Reminiscing always whenever I inhale those aromas of you. Taking me to a place of europhic. For I once tasted the heaven gleam when I tasted your lips against mine. I have sinned in your embrace, penetrating you into my velvety silky skin. Engraving you more & more into my flesh. I shall be eternally yours forevermore. For theor shall never other before me. I am bound to you. Why do I miss you this much? Your voice is my light & my darkness is combined into one bedding. It's you that has consumed all of me into you. Why do I love you this much? It's because I found myself in you. I realized that with you, I'm not afraid of being my true self. I am not afraid anymore. I crave a love that is pure yet. At the same time, it is impure. Filling my every desire at the same time. Taking ne to escasty. It is you that has me yearning for more each time. It's your soft caress, your ravages, the way ypur fingertips sway upon the contour of my naked body. It's the way you paint your lips upon mine. It's the way you speak to me that leaves me tingling all over. It is simply you. I can try to run. Yet I'll always flutter back to your loving arms. Bound to you like a lost soul until I am in the arms of my beloved. For only then does life make sense. You've molded me to no one but you. I have so much of you. That I can't function or think. You've crowded my every thought. I love losing myself in the thoughts of you & I. Every time I think about you, it's as I am reliving those moments with you. Reliving the notion of time. Frozen in those moments of never wanting you to leave my side. Nestled upon your chest where I call my home sweet home. I long to remain there forever. Nestled underneath your neck with my hands wrapped around you. Feeling your heartbeats upon my face. For it's a melody, I long to listen for the rest of my life. It's you, my love. If only you knew how much I love you. You'd understand how much you mean to me. I'll always love you now and until I take my last breath. ⚘⁀🤍

Written: March 5th, 2024

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#her penetrating soul #softness #soft hearts #soft #deep thoughts #deep emotions #feelings #spilled ink #poets on tumblr #photography #soft murmurs #soulful #soulful beauty #soulful love #soulful expressions #soulful sentiments #soulful moments

[binah-beloved]

as Binah takes care of you when you are sick, you take care of her when she is sick, that once in a blue moon occasion. she still goes to work that day, acting as if nothing's wrong, but you know something is- her posture is slightly slumped, her fingers lingering on pages instead of reading them, her movements slow and methodical whenever she walks- you can tell. you know Binah.

so you drag her away from work and into bed, and she barely tries to stop you since she feels lightheaded and heavy on her feet. she sits on the bed with a deep, quiet sigh, the type she only vocalizes around you, a tiny smile on her face as you bring her extra blankets and some water. you refuse to listen when she tries to shoo you away, not wanting you to get sick as well, and eventually she relents and shifts the covers slightly to make a perfectly you-sized spot on the bed

if you're going to stay and care for her, a sick and weakened Arbiter, you may as well be in the best spot- right next to her, in her arms

#project moon #lobotomy corporation #library of ruina #binah #binah lobcorp #binah library of ruina #she rarely if ever gets delirious sick #simply the type of illness that makes one uncomfortable and unsteady #she cuddles you particularly close #murmuring her thanks for taking care of her #she's used to dealing with illnesses alone #so being doted on makes her heart melt a little bit

[whythankyoukindly]

I spent some time today trying to get some clear recordings of my own mitral valve murmur, here is the first. I have had this murmur for years but it is said to be benign although it has got a bit louder as time has gone on. Docs are aware, in fact it was only commented on medically when I had a medical for a job - although I had heard it for myself beforehand. The old doctor there did the usual stuff but then asked me to do a load of sit-ups after which my heart was fit to burst! As I laid down on my back I could hear it pounding in my ears and see the ripples going down my chest and stomach. He spent ages listening to all areas of my heart but mostly concentrating on the mitral area, in fact that episde made me feel very uncomfortable. Hopefully you can hear the swoosh in between the first and second heart sound. What you think? Can post another, perhaps clearer recording of it. As me anything - DM's welcome as I'm really getting back into this again.

#cardiophile #cardiophilia #heart sounds #heartbeats #recording heartbeats #my heart #male heartbeat #heart murmur

[blackbutler-readerinsertsandjunk]

Charles Gray and Edward protect his s/o when she's stuck in the Campania!

let's hear it for the gents!!! <3

Not only is it his duty to protect all the other citizens on board, it’s doubly his duty to protect the love of his life. Everything else is quickly tossed to the side; his irritation toward Ciel, his big-brother-instincts-in-overdrive for Lizzie, all of it. Things have gotten serious, so it’s time for him to get serious. He focuses instantly on keeping everyone that he can out of harm’s way, up to and including a firm, “Get behind me, (Name), and stay behind me!” Assuming that his S/O doesn’t know her own way around a sword, and even if she does, he wants to keep her safe at any cost. He’s a knight, for God’s sake. His hands might be shaking a bit as he cuts down any threat which gets too close, but he’s still swinging away. He’s never been in a situation like this before, this life and death, and it shows. He doesn’t stop, though, only pausing so he can round to slash away one of the creatures that’s tried to grab at his darling. Of course, he does end up with a few wounds for his trouble. For all that he thinks he was just doing the decent thing… he’s also deeply grateful that (Name) gently patches him up on the way home. He doesn’t mind a scar or two; what’s more noble than being hurt in the name of protecting someone you love?

Ah, so his time to shine for his beloved and keep her safe has finally come!! It’s like a bit of high-energy theater. All things being equal, taking everything into account, even someone as dramatic and ready to fight as Charles Grey tries very hard to keep his S/O out of danger. He signed up for a line of work that requires him to carry a sword, or at least he was trained heavily for it from a young age; neither of those things are true for her. So he makes sure to hold her at arm’s length from his duties. That regrettably means she probably has never seen him in action until now. Funnily enough, her presence actually helps make him stronger — to hell with superstitions, he has no time to be afraid of these walking corpses when his hesitation could mean (Name) being hurt or worse. Down they all go, indiscriminately, heads chopped off with extreme prejudice for daring to exist past death! … And, likely with some big moment where he sweeps her out of biting distance just in time. There will definitely be some grateful, relieved kissing in the lifeboats later.

#twilightlover2007 #Black Butler #Kuroshitsuji #Edward #Grey #reaction #romantic #drama #action #they're good boys dammit!!!! #pls the mental image of S/O gently tending to wounds Edward got while protecting her #and the mental image of S/O softly murmuring thank yous as she kissing Grey in the lifeboats #GAH MY HEART #one hell of a queue

[sidsforeverhome]

Sid had to go to the emergency vet a few nights ago but he is doing better my sweet boy ❤️

#cats #cats of tumblr #kitty #animals #senior cat #black cats #catlover #pet lovers #pets #heart murmur #kindnessmatters #cats are family #always be kind

[rubbishpit]

After a small breath hold and pressure

What do you hear in this?

#cardiophile #cardiophilia #heartbeat #irregular heartbeat #heart murmur #slow heartbeat

[elisaenglish]

I like to remember things my own way... How I remember them. Not necessarily the way they happened.

#lost highway #fred madison #bill pullman #renee madison #alice wakefield #patricia arquette #patterns of distraction #all eternal things #love in a time of... #a murmur of fire #heart of darkness #this is how it feels #1997 #elisa english #elisaenglish

[3heartmind3]

Nice recording of mitral valve before sleeping. Heartbeat is not slow and murmur is not slight. Enjoy!

#cardiophilia #cardiophile #heartbeat #cardio #female heartbeat #arrhythmia #heart murmurs #extrasystoles

[diicktective]

i wanna make a return, but my brother is staying with us... again & my pup is having fainting spells... again & im just. gonna have to deal with all that first :')

#ᵒᵘᵗ ᵒᶠ ( vice ) #im trying to get a vet appointment & to not to freak out too bad but #my baby girl is 14 w a heart murmur & iffy kidneys so i will just. take it all day by day :')