Rapture (French: La fleur de l'âge) is a 1965 drama film directed by John Guillermin, and starring Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Gozzi, and Dean Stockwell.

[1] His widow Mary said it "was the only film he directed that wholly satisfied his vision as an artist.

"[2] Young teenager Agnes, her retired widower father, and their caretaker Karen, live in an old house on the Brittany coast in France.

Agnes, who is immature and perhaps backward, has been removed from school and lives an isolated and childlike life.

The fugitive leaves separately, refusing to go with Karen, but Agnes follows him and he brings her home.

Hakim beat out Carol Reed and Hecht Hill Lancaster who both wanted the novel.

[6] In March 1963 Daryl F. Zanuck listed the film on the slate of 20th Century Fox projects for that year, with a tentative start date of 10 September.

[10]Time magazine called the film a "penumbral play of love against loneliness" that "boost[s] the artistic stock of English director John Guillermin" and "clinch[es] the reputation of France's 15-year-old Patricia Gozzi.

"[11] The Los Angeles Times called it "a beautifully made movie of nuances".