The Beat That My Heart Skipped Reviews

Since I kept hearing some really good things about this flick, I was really eager to check it out. First of all, I discovered afterwards the fact that it was actually a remake which was really surprising. Indeed, most of the time, French movies are remade in some (very average) American versions. This time, we have a French movie which is actually a remake of a rather unknown American movie ('Fingers' by James Tobak with Harvey Keitel). It was really quite surprising. Even more surprising was that that this ‘remake’ turned out to be a great movie! Indeed, the directing was great, the acting was awesome and the story was, in my opinion, just fascinating. Indeed, it is a rather odd mix between the life of a piano virtuoso and the life of a small time thug and though it shouldn’t work, it really does, especially thanks to a strong performance by Romain Duris, one of the best French actors around nowadays. By now, Jacques Audiard has also turned out to be one of the most interesting French directors at work nowadays and his following movies (‘De Rouille et d’os’ et ‘Un Prophète’) were also massively critically heralded. To conclude, it was a very good movie and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you're interested in French movies.