The Beat That My Heart Skipped
Can music tame the raging soul?
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 47 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 25, 2005
- Originally Released: 2007
- Label: Fox Lorber
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Romain Duris & Niels Arestrup | |
Performer: | Jonathan Zaccai, Linh Dan Pham, Aure Atika, Emmanuelle Devos, Gilles Cohen & Anton Yakovlev | |
Directed by | Jacques Audiard | |
Edited by | Juliette Welfling | |
Screenwriting by | Jacques Audiard & Tonino Benacquista | |
Composition by | Alexandre Desplat | |
Cinematography by | Stéphane Fontaine | |
Produced by | Pascal Caucheteux | |
Director of Photography: | Stéphane Fontaine |
Entertainment Reviews:
From its plot to its look, The Beat That My Heart Skipped is designed to express how it feels to be torn between two opposing worlds and passions.
AV Club
Rating: 3/4 --
Audiard has wisely avoided the crime-movie clichés of Toback's Fingers, and if his film is not exactly naturalistic, it is steeped in a reality that makes it all the more compelling.
Detroit Free Press
Rating: 3.5/4 --
This violent film, which swept the Cesar awards (the French Oscars) this year, provides a nuanced portrait of a conflicted young man who can never completely break away from the dark world in which he has grown up.
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Jerusalem Post
[With] a performance of furious, splintering intensity from Keitel at the quivering peak of his early form.
Sight and Sound
[Duris] is pure star quality: gloweringly sexy, hypnotically unstable and needy, combining rage and vulnerability in his handsome, delicate face.
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Guardian
Audiard's style, handheld and close to the characters, is keyed to Tom's jazzed energy.
Film Comment
Altogether, Audiard's movie hangs together better than Toback's: it's more coherent in its construction, far less arbitrary in its dialogue, and more plausible and considered in its characterisation.
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Sight and Sound
Product Description:
Director Jacques Audiard and screenwriter Tonino Benacquista, who shared a 2002 Cesar Award for Best Original Screenplay for READ MY LIPS, team up again in THE BEAT THAT MY HEART SKIPPED, a gritty psychological drama set in the dark, dank streets of Paris. The film is based on James Toback's cult favorite FINGERS, in which Harvey Keitel played a tortured soul trapped between his love of the piano and his involvement with the mob. In this remake, Romain Duris stars as Tom, a ne-'er-do-well who works with two scheming real estate men, Fabrice (Jonathan Zaccai) and Sami (Gilles Cohen), who have little or no morals. When Tom sees his mother's old agent, he decides to return to the piano, practicing Bach's Toccata in E Minor for an important audition that he envisions could be a life-changing event. He hires a Vietnamese woman, Miao-Lin (Linh-Dan Pham), as his teacher, even though they speak different languages. While struggling to regain his mastery of the piano -- which he gave up after his virtuoso mother's tragic death -- he is called upon by his partners to participate in shady deals and even help one of them cheat on his wife (Aure Atika). He also has a troublesome relationship with his father (Niels Arestrup), who asks Tom to collect money he is owed, putting him in dangerous situations. THE BEAT THAT MY HEART SKIPPED is an intelligent, involving film, told in long takes with a handheld camera to heighten the emotional impact of scene after scene.
Keywords:
Infidelity
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Theatrical Release
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Crime
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Remake
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Paris, France
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Revenge
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Fathers And Sons
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Money
Product Info
- UPC: 720917547220
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