The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005)
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: Romain Duris, Niels Arestrup, Linh Dan Pham, Aure Atika, Emmanuelle Devos
Screenwriter: Tonino Benacquista
Producer: Pascal Caucheteux
Composer: Alexandre Desplat
DVD Info
Release:
Oct 25, 2005
DVD Features:
- Region (unknown)
- Keep Case
- Widescreen
Audio:
- 5.1 Mix
Additional Release Material:
- Deleted Scenes
- Interviews
- Filmographies
- Theatrical Trailer
Text/Photo Gallery:
- Trailer Gallery
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Reviews
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.
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.
A hugely enjoyable, superbly directed film with a cracking script and a terrific central performance from Romain Duris.
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.
The actors' touching father-and-son exchanges barely miss a beat.
None of this would work without Duris' simmering performance as Tom, a person who's struggling to find his true calling.
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