Teenager Laurent Chevalier stumbles through adolescence in 1950s France in this loosely paced coming-of-age story. Chevalier develops scarlet fever after his first sexual encounter with a prostitute and avoiding a priest's lips. Chevalier is sent to a sanatorium with his over-protective and unfaithful mother after a fever causes a heart murmur in him.
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Teenager Laurent Chevalier stumbles through adolescence in 1950s France in this loosely paced coming-of-age story. Chevalier develops scarlet fever after his first sexual encounter with a prostitute and avoiding a priest's lips. Chevalier is sent to a sanatorium with his over-protective and unfaithful mother after a fever causes a heart murmur in him.
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