Synopsis
A psychologist discovers troubling links between Nazism and modern-day big business.
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Cast
- Mathieu AmalricSimon Kessler
- Michael LonsdaleMathias Jüst
- Édith ScobLucy Jüst
- Lou CastelArie Neumann
- Jean-Pierre KalfonKarl Rose
- Valérie DrévilleLynn Sanderson
- Laëtitia SpigarelliLouisa
- Delphine ChuillotIsabelle
- Nicolas MauryTavera
- Rémy CarpentierJacques Paolini
Recommendations
- 91
Entertainment Weekly
It's a thin line between 20th-century Nazism and 21st-century corporate culture in Heartbeat Detector, Nicolas Klotz's rewardingly chilly psychological thriller. - 83
The A.V. Club
Amalric gives another in a recent string of riveting performances, and Klotz gets a lot of play out of the ironic distance between musical expression and corporate rigor. - 75
Chicago Tribune
A rich, vexing experience. - 70
Variety
Both pertinent and discomfiting, this sober, well-cast drama remains quietly riveting, despite its 140-minute running time. - 70
Village Voice
Here, knowledge and understanding raise more questions than they answer, and the film ends not in closure, but in openness. It is precisely those qualities that give Heartbeat Detector its epic sense of humanity. Take them away and you'd be left with a leaner but markedly less compelling workaday workplace thriller: "Michael Clayton" with Nazis instead of lawyers. - 63
TV Guide Magazine
A chilling corporate thriller with an intriguing mystery on the surface and a deeply troubling idea at its dark core. - 60
The Hollywood Reporter
The movie is, arguably, too long and overladen with ideas. Klotz and Perceval are particularly keen on nailing the use and abuse of language in formatting human behavior. - 60
The New York Times
The rather lost-looking Mr. Amalric, most recently seen on screens giving his left eyeball a furious workout in “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,” maintains a suitably funereal mien throughout.
