Synopsis
Like his father, Tom is a real estate agent who makes his money from dirty, and sometimes brutal, deals. But a chance encounter prompts him to take up the piano and become a concert pianist. He auditions with the help of a beautiful, young virtuoso pianist who cannot speak French - music is their only exchange. But pressures from the ugly world of his day job soon become more than he can handle.
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Cast
- Romain DurisThomas Seyr
- Niels ArestrupRobert Seyr
- Jonathan ZaccaïFabrice
- Gilles CohenSami
- Linh-Dan PhamMiao Lin
- Aure AtikaAline
- Emmanuelle DevosChris
- Anton YakovlevMinskov
- Mélanie LaurentMinskov's Girlfriend
- Agnès AubéWoman
Recommendations
- 100
Christian Science Monitor
As stylish as it is suspenseful. - 100
The New York Times
Audiard's superb remake improves on the original significantly, investing it with aesthetic grandeur and emotional depth. - 83
Entertainment Weekly
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. - 80
The New Yorker
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. - 80
The A.V. Club
As tense and taut as any crime saga, but the stakes are more personal. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
Beat has a moody, furtive quality that jibes perfectly with the perplexed life of a pianist-gangster. - 70
Time
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. - 60
Variety
Stands reasonably well on its own as an urgent, updated genre meditation on nurture vs. nature.
