The Beat That My Heart Skipped

Name: The Beat That My Heart Skipped
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, Romance, Crime
Released: July 1, 2005
Duration: 108 min
Rating: 75
Cast: Aure Atika, Emmanuelle Devos, Jonathan Zaccaï, Linh Dan Pham, Niels Arestrup

2005

METASCORE

Generally favorable reviews based on 32 Critic Reviews

See All

USER SCORE

Generally favorable reviews based on 29 Ratings

See All

7.9

VOTE NOW

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

7.9	Your Score
7.9	User Score Generally favorable reviews based on 29 Ratings

Would you like to write a review?

There is a 75 character minimum for reviews. If your review contains spoilers, please check the Spoiler box. Please do not use ALL CAPS. There is no linking or other HTML allowed. Your review may be edited for content. 0/5000

Check box if your review contains spoilers

Movie Details & Credits

Wellspring Media | Release Date: July 1, 2005 | Unrated

Starring: Aure Atika, Emmanuelle Devos, Jonathan Zaccaï, Linh Dan Pham, Niels Arestrup, Romain Duris

Summary: In this follow-up to his critical smash "Read My Lips," Jacques Audiard has adapted and updated James Toback’s cult 1978 noir "Fingers" to come up with this memorable character study about a young man torn between a life of crime and classical music. (Wellspring Media)

Director: Jacques Audiard

Genre(s): Action, Drama, Thriller, Romance, Crime, Music

Rating: Unrated

Runtime: 108 min

See All Details and Credits

Watch Now

Buy on

Stream On

Metascore

Positive:

Mixed:

Negative:

Critic Reviews

100

David Sterritt

As stylish as it is suspenseful. Read full review

100

M. E. Russell

Unpretentiously fantastic. Read full review

Ty Burr

The film confirms director Audiard as a master of visual mood, in this case one of barely expressed emotional panic. Read full review

Ann Hornaday

A nifty piece of work -- with, by the way, a fantastic musical score and soundtrack -- that, if there's any justice in the movie world, will eventually earn a mystique all its own. Read full review

Mick LaSalle

A good French film that was inspired by an American classic. Read full review

Eddie Cockrell

Stands reasonably well on its own as an urgent, updated genre meditation on nurture vs. nature. Read full review

Stanley Kauffmann

Contrivances accrue so thickly that the source seems to be not 1978 Toback, but 1930s Warner Brothers. The film sweats to be up-to-date with ultra-hectic editing, pace, elision, and sangfroid, but they can't verify the pasteboard base. Read full review

SEE ALL 32 REVIEWS

Write a Review

User Reviews

TimothyD.

Jan 28, 2006

Intense, compelling, emotionally complex, with great work by Duris, the male lead, who brings subtlety and urgency to what could have been a terminally unsympathetic character. I don't know that I could say I enjoyed much of it, but I couldn't stop watching -- in this case that is Intense, compelling, emotionally complex, with great work by Duris, the male lead, who brings subtlety and urgency to what could have been a terminally unsympathetic character. I don't know that I could say I enjoyed much of it, but I couldn't stop watching -- in this case that is a high compliment.… Expand

0 of 0 users found this helpful

SEE ALL 1 REVIEWS