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The Beat That My Heart Skipped

De battre mon coeur s'est arrêté

2005

Jacques Audiard

Romain Duris, Aure Atika, Emmanuelle Devos, Niels Arestrup ...

6.8

5,102

Drama A man finds his heart and soul torn between loyalty to his family and a need to be redeemed from his violent lifestyle in this powerful drama from France. Tom (Romain Duris) is a man in his early thirties who finds himself caught between two very different worlds. Tom loves music, and longs to have a career as a concert pianist; he also has talent, and is taking advanced music lessons from Miao-Lin (Linh Dan Pham). But Tom supports ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Stephen Holden The New York Times	"Stirs up a delicious mixture of Alfred Hitchcock-style suspense, hard-boiled action and exquisite musical reflection!"
		Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"It's more than a simple improvement, inverting some of the original's qualities so that the impersonal, well-crafted filmmaking remains lucid throughout. Even more unexpectedly, the piano lessons taken by the hero (Romain Duris, very fine) from a Vietnamese woman who speaks no French are more highly charged than any of the violence".
		Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"Superb remake, which improves on the original significantly. (...) it's essential viewing".
		Philip French The Guardian	"A work of authority, maturity and intensity that improves on Toback's original film without appearing to patronise or despise it."
		Eddie Cockrell Variety	"Pic successfully retools the story from 1970s New York to contempo Paris (...) Duris’ charismatic perf will keep auds transfixed"
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"A 'Beat' not to skip (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Jonathan Romney Screendaily	"After seeing this extraordinary film, you might prefer your kids to give up practising their scales."
		Noel Murray AV Club	"[It] is as tense and taut as any crime saga, but the stakes are more personal. Every shaky close-up and whip-pan conveys a sense of time running out."

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