The Beat That My Heart Skipped DVD

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Director Jacques Audiard & screenwriter Tonino Benacquista who shared a 2002 Cesar Award for Best Original Screenplay for ' Read My Lips' team up again in ' The Beat That My Heart Skipped' a gritty psychological drama set in the dark dank streets of Paris The film is based on James Toback's cult favourite ' Fingers' in which Harvey Keitel played a tortured soul trapped between his love of the piano & his involvement with the mob In this remake Romain Duris stars as Tom a ne'er-do-well who works with two scheming real estate men Fabrice (Jonathan Zaccai) & Sami (Gilles Cohen) who have little or no morals When Tom sees his mother's old agent he decides to return to the piano practising Bach's Toccata in E Minor for an important audition that he envisions could be a life-changing event He hires a Vietnamese woman Miao-Lin (Linh-Dan Pham) as his teacher even though they speak different languages While struggling to regain his mastery of the piano
- which he gave up after his virtuoso mother's tragic death
- he is called upon by his partners to participate in shady deals & even help one of them cheat on his wife (Aure Atika) He also has a troublesome relationship with his father (Niels Arestrup) who asks Tom to collect money he is owed putting him in dangerous situations ' The Beat That My Heart Skipped' is an intelligent involving film told in long takes with a handheld camera to heighten the emotional impact of scene after scene