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4 unusual facts about Benoît Ferreux


Benoît Ferreux

The same year, Benoît Ferreux appeared alongside actors Catherine Deneuve and Marcello Mastroianni in the Nadine Trintignant directed drama It Only Happens to Others (French: Ça n'arrive qu'aux autres).

In 2007 he appeared in the Alain Corneau-directed crime thriller The Second Wind (French: Le Deuxième souffle), starring Daniel Auteuil and Monica Bellucci.

Set in 1954, Ferreux played Laurent Chevalier, a boy coming to terms with his burgeoning sexuality and his close relationship (which ultimately leads to an incestuous liaison) with his mother Clara (portrayed by Italian actress Lea Massari) at a spa where he is being treated for a heart murmur.

Lea Massari

Massari become known in art cinema for two roles, the missing girl Anna in Michelangelo Antonioni's L'avventura (1960), and as Clara, the mother of a sexually precocious 14 year old boy named Laurent (Benoît Ferreux) in Louis Malle's Murmur of the Heart (1971).



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