The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005)

In this follow-up to his critical smash Read My Lips, French filmmaker Jacques Audiard has adapted and updated James Toback's 1978 cult classic, Fingers, to come up with a moody, memorable study of a young man torn between a life of crime and classical music. The film premiered at the 2005 Berlin Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear for best music, and will soon receive its North American premiere in competition at the Tribeca Film Festival.

Romain Duris (L'Auberge Espagnole, Le Divorce) portrays 28-year-old Tom, who seems destined to follow in his father's footsteps as a Parisian property shark, a sleazy and sometimes brutal milieu. But a chance encounter with his late mother's music agent leads him to believe that he can become, like his mother, a concert pianist. In earnest, he starts preparing for the audition with a beautiful, young virtuoso pianist who has just arrived from China. She doesn't speak a word of French; music is their only exchange. But pressures from the ugly world of his day job soon become more than he can handle... More »

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