The Beat That My Heart Skipped(De battre mon cœur s'est arrêté)

Name: The Beat That My Heart Skipped
Genre: Music, Drama, Crime

France · 2005
1h 47m
Director Jacques Audiard
Starring Romain Duris, Niels Arestrup, Jonathan Zaccaï, Gilles Cohen
Genre Music, Drama, Crime

Like his father, Tom is a real estate agent who profits from dirty, sometimes brutal, deals. After he is introduced to the piano, he starts to audition with the help of a beautiful virtuoso pianist who cannot speak French - music is their only exchange. But pressures from his day job soon become more than he can handle...

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The New Yorker by David Denby

Audiard's work is tense, vivid, and alert, and he's got the right actor as Tom, an irresistibly attractive guy who's pushing thirty yet has no more control over his impulses than a chaotic boy.

100

Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt

As stylish as it is suspenseful.

Variety by Eddie Cockrell

Stands reasonably well on its own as an urgent, updated genre meditation on nurture vs. nature.

The Hollywood Reporter by Kirk Honeycutt

Beat has a moody, furtive quality that jibes perfectly with the perplexed life of a pianist-gangster.

TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh

It lacks "Fingers" searing, explosive vitality.

100

The New York Times by Manohla Dargis

Audiard's superb remake improves on the original significantly, investing it with aesthetic grandeur and emotional depth.

Village Voice by Michael Atkinson

As it is, Duris, capable and dull, is no Keitel, 2005 is no 1978, and The Beat That My Heart Skipped is no "Fingers."

The A.V. Club by Noel Murray

As tense and taut as any crime saga, but the stakes are more personal.

Entertainment Weekly by Owen Gleiberman

The Beat That My Heart Skipped lacks the screw-loose existential vibrance of "Fingers," yet it teases out a romantic underside to the original I never quite knew was there.

Time by Richard Schickel

Out of a borrowed and preposterous premise, Audiard has fashioned a film that is more haunting--and more compellingly watchable--than it has any right to be.