'The Beat That My Heart Skipped' strikes the right chord
by Eleanor Ringel Gillespie

You can bet the farm that any remake based on a James Toback movie is going to be an improvement. Toback's cinematic sins stretch back 30 years and include such hipness-afflicted clunkers as "Two Girls and a Guy" and "When Will I Be Loved." Director Jacques Audiard, who made the excellent "Read My Lips," has chosen to give Toback's 1978 film "Fingers" a makeover. In the original, Harvey Keitel played a crook who dreams of being a concert pianist. Audiard moves the setting to Paris and casts handsome Romain Duris in the Keitel role. Read the full review

TO SUM UP
At 28, Tom who seems destined to follow in his father's footsteps as a Parisian property shark. However, a chance encounter with his late mother's music agent rekindles a desire for a musical career and hope for a better life.

FILM FACTS ...
Wellspring Media
'The Beat That My Heart Skipped'

Director: Jacques Audiard
Starring: Romain Duris, Niels Arestrup, Emmanuelle Devos, Linh Dan Pham, Aure Atika
Run time: 107 minutes
Release date: July 1, 2005
Rating: Not Rated.

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Austin American-Statesman: 3 of 5 stars
"... (an) odd but engaging portrait."

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: B
"... a tense, jumpy, sometimes amusing work that posits the inherent duality of everything."

The Palm Beach Post: C+
"The downbeat tale still feels awfully predictable."


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