The Beat My Heart Skipped Movie Review 2005

In adapting James Toback's 1978 "Fingers," French director Audiard changed the place (from New York to Paris), the pace (more somber and less high-strung), and the names--but the heart of the story stayed the same. Here Thomas Seyr (Duris, in Harvey Keitel's "Johnny Fingers" role) does his dad's dirty collections work in crooked real estate schemes though it repulses him. But when his long-discarded dreams of becoming a concert pianist reemerge, the pull between his two lives proves more than he can bear.

Distribution

Wellspring Media, A Division of Genius Products, Inc., 2230 Broadway, Santa Monica, CA 90904, Phone: (310)453-1222, Fax: (310)453-0074, URL: http://www.wellspring.com

Available on DVD
Running time 107 minutes.
Originally from French.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Paris, Bad Dads, Real Estate, Struggling Musicians

Screenplay

Jacques Audiard, Tonino Benaquista

Cast

Romain Duris, Niels Arestrup, Linh Dan Pham, Emmanuelle Devos, Jonathan Zaccai, Gilles Cohen, Anton Yakovlev, Melanie Laurent

Cinematography

Stephanie Fontaine

Director

Jacques Audiard

Other

Cyril Holtz, Brigitte Taillandier, Pascal Villard, Philippe Amouroux, Juliette Welfing, Virginie Montel, Virginie Montel, Francois Emmanuelli

Producer

Pascal Caucheteux, Why Not Productions, Sedif, France 3 Cinema, UGC

Awards

British Acad. 2005: Foreign Film.