Fresh
Niels Arestrup is striking as the hero's slumlord father.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
The Beat That My Heart Skipped
Can music tame the raging soul?
2005 · 1h 47m · Not Rated
Crime, Drama
Directed by
Jacques Audiard
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The Beat That My Heart Skipped
Overview
A ruthless real estate agent discovers a passion for piano and auditions with help from a young virtuoso, but the pressures of his corrupt career threaten to derail his musical aspirations.
Director and cast
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86%
Tomatometer
Fresh
None of this would work without Duris' simmering performance as Tom, a person who's struggling to find his true calling.
Bill Muller, Arizona Republic
Fresh
From its plot to its look, The Beat That My Heart Skipped is designed to express how it feels to be torn between two opposing worlds and passions.
Noel Murray, AV Club
Fresh
Audiard has a nice stride here, establishing Tom's world and then altering it with slow insistence.
Tom Long, Detroit News
Fresh
Audiard has wisely avoided the crime-movie cliches of Toback's Fingers, and if his film is not exactly naturalistic, it is steeped in a reality that makes it all the more compelling.
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press
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