Boyish Charm

Murmur of the Heart takes the viewer along a crucial period in the life of Laurent. In the first part of the film, he is portrayed as an innocent schoolboy. The uniform he wears to his religious day school shows him, as well as his peers, as a young boy.

The fitted, long shorts paired with a sweater, crisp collar, and calf socks in his loafers evoke a little schoolboy- which was what Laurent seemed to be. Not too far after these scenes, his coming-of-age begins and he drops his goody-two-shoes facade.

Even when he wasn't dressed for class, he still had a momma's boy preppy style of a clean-cut child in his oxford and khaki pants.

This image of Laurent is quickly corrupted as the movie goes on and he begins to grow up. His character drops the little-boy style, but keeps the preppiness so characteristic of the '70s. His mother, in the background of the last image, is an example of the preppy glamour style she and her family wears.