De Battre mon Coeur s'est Arrêté (The Beat That My Heart Skipped) (2005)
Average Rating: 7.2/10
Reviews Counted: 95
Fresh: 81 | Rotten: 14
Stylish and visceral, this able remake is infused with realism, grit, and a taut performance by star Romain Duris.
Average Rating: 6.9/10
Critic Reviews: 29
Fresh: 23 | Rotten: 6
Stylish and visceral, this able remake is infused with realism, grit, and a taut performance by star Romain Duris.
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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 himself working as a collection agent for his father, Robert
Cast
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Romain Duris
Tom -
Niels Arestrup
Robert -
Linh-Dan Pham
Miao-Lin -
Aure Atika
Aline -
Emmanuelle Devos
Chris -
Jonathan Zaccaï
Fabrice -
Gilles Cohen
Sami -
Anton Yakovlev
Minskov -
Mélanie Laurent
Minskov's Girlfriend -
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Niels Arestrup is striking as the hero's slumlord father.
Top CriticNone of this would work without Duris' simmering performance as Tom, a person who's struggling to find his true calling.
Audiard has a nice stride here, establishing Tom's world and then altering it with slow insistence.
Audiard has wisely avoided the crime-movie clichés of Toback's Fingers, and if his film is not exactly naturalistic, it is steeped in a reality that makes it all the more compelling.
Emotionally richer than Fingers, and there's nothing secondhand about Duris' performance.
This is character-driven film noir, where the violence serves a higher purpose than shocking or titillating an audience.
Relying on the enigmatic and sultry charisma of Romain Duris, The Beat My Heart Skipped is a mesmerising portrait of a man torn by two very different sides of his personality.
Much of the 49-minute duration is taken up by the moderator translating the French responses, even though these are also fully (and far more accurately) subtitled on the DVD.
A gritty urban romance that touches on the various fascinating ways that music and psychological states of mind interact or clash in a dissonant and chaotic modern world.
A gritty urban romance that touches on the various fascinating ways that music and psychological states of mind interact or clash in a dissonant and chaotic modern world.
A riff that will provide great pleasures to those willing to sample a molto vivace remake of Toback's cinematic ode to torment and obsession.
[Duris] is pure star quality: gloweringly sexy, hypnotically unstable and needy, combining rage and vulnerability in his handsome, delicate face.
Altogether, Audiard's movie hangs together better than Toback's: it's more coherent in its construction, far less arbitrary in its dialogue, and more plausible and considered in its characterisation.
It's a turgid, seemingly endless trudge through Gallic angst and ennui without one memorable performance, image, line of dialogue or note of music.
If not for Duris' amazing, thoroughly captivating performance, it's clear that De battre mon coeur s'est arrêté would not come off nearly as well as it ultimately does.
Simmering study of a petty hood-cum-wannabe pianist succumbing to his innate violent side -- but there might be a touch too much ivory tinkling for some.
A hugely enjoyable, superbly directed film with a cracking script and a terrific central performance from Romain Duris.
The Beat That My Heart Skipped is a work of authority, maturity and intensity that improves on Toback's original film without appearing to patronise or despise it.
Une rencontre entre Jacques Audiard et Romain Duris qui consacre ce dernier comme l'un des grands acteurs français de sa génération.
Delivers its tough narrative straight and swiftly, up to its surprising but satisfying ending.
It has been very well made, with the often jumpy photography and scuzzy locales that reflect the nervous energy and predatory nature of its young subject. But it also finds the time to achieve some real emotional depth.
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Foreign Titles
- Der wilde Schlag meines Herzens (DE)
- The Beat That My Heart Skipped (UK)
