The Beat That My Heart Skipped Movie Summary (2024)

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Tom Seyr (Romain Duris), a violent thug with a heart, grows weary of cracking heads for his smarmy, mediocre gangster father, Robert (Niels Arestrup).
Tom Seyr (Romain Duris), a violent thug with a heart, grows weary of cracking heads for his smarmy, mediocre gangster father, Robert (Niels Arestrup), and longs for a chance at something else. A fortuitous encounter prompts Tom to renew his classical piano playing, like his mother before him, and he begins to study with piano teacher Miao Lin (Linh Dan Pham). But when he starts a passionate affair with Aline (Aure Atika), the wife of one of his cronies, his new happiness may be short-lived.

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A well-mounted version of standard crime movie themes. What the film lacks in originality, it makes up for in skill. Read the review!

Mar 27, 2006 · Absolutely worth 102 minutes of your time for its storytelling, its use of music, its performances and its stylish direction.
As someone who is repeatedly dismayed by American remakes of European and Far Eastern movies, encountering a French remake of a cult American film presents me with a judgemental dilemma. It's over twenty years since I last saw James Toback's Fingers, an edgy crime drama from 1978 featuring Harvey Keitel at close to his best. Memories that old simply cannot be relied on, and yet with no present day access to the film it's impossible for me to re-evaluate it as a comparison piece. I remember being impressed and for some time enthusing about a film that no-one else I've since met seems to have seen. But that was, as I said, a long time ago, and I was a lot, lot younger and had a few thousand less films under my belt. Reviewers with better memories or better access have suggested that The Beat That My Heart Skipped [De battre mon coeur s'est arrêté] actually improves on Toback's original, which they felt was a more ragged and rough-edged film. But of course I like ragged and I like rough-edged. And with all of the awards that Beat has...

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The Beat that My Heart Skipped is director Jacques Audiard's re-imagination of James Toback's Fingers. Although Audiard and his co-writer, Tonino Benacquista, have retained the premise and some of the ideas of the original, this is, for the most ...
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Music soothes the savage beast. Or does it? That is the premise of the French film THE BEAT THAT MY HEART SKIPPED. By the way, a clever title does not

Jul 14, 2005 · The Beat That My Heart Skipped is a darker and more downbeat enterprise, with a hero who is as conflicted, but not as mad, as the Toback original.
The first time we see Thomas, he's carrying a sack squirming with movement. It contains rats he will set loose in a building he wants to buy cheaply; he has

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Peter Bradshaw: Duris is the veteran of dozens of French movies from the past decade, but here he hits a dazzling streak.

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A ruthless real estate agent discovers a passion for piano and auditions with help from a young virtuoso, but the pressures of his corrupt career threaten to derail his musical aspirations.

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Tom is 25 and seems to be following in the tracks of his father, a corrupted real estate agent. But an unexpected encounter brings him to think he could be the talented solo pianist he always wanted to be, as his mother was. He keeps working in real estate but starts preparing for an audition.

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For years Hollywood producers have been greedily snapping up the rights to foreign films in order to remake them as their own, but The Beat...

Nov 5, 2005 · On the face of it, the film is rather schematic in the neat way Tom is torn between his mother and his father and the manner in which the plot ...
Philip French: ... a work of authority, maturity and intensity that improves on Toback's original film

Audiard's take is fevered, immediate, and hopeful--a story of a man recovering his soul. The most intense and compelling sections of The Beat are almost word ...
In this follow-up to his critical smash "Read My Lips," Jacques Audiard has adapted and updated James Toback’s cult 1978 noir "Fingers" to come up with this memorable character study about a young man torn between a life of crime and classical music. (Wellspring Media)

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Directed by Jacques Audiard. Audiard is a screenwriter who came fairly late to directing. Six movies by his mid-sixties is not a big output, but a filmography that includes Read My Lips, A Prophet…