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  • 2008
  • Not Rated
  • New Yorker Films
  • 2 h 23 m
  • 2008
  • Not Rated
  • New Yorker Films
  • 2 h 23 m

Summary Based on the book “La Question Humaine” by François Emmanuel, Heartbeat Detector unfolds a quietly riveting mystery of blackmail and intrigue, as the long-buried secrets of high-powered corporate executives threaten to bring them down.

Directed By: Nicolas Klotz

Written By: François Emmanuel, Elisabeth Perceval

  • 2008
  • Not Rated
  • New Yorker Films
  • 2 h 23 m
  • 2008
  • Not Rated
  • New Yorker Films
  • 2 h 23 m

Heartbeat Detector

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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Summary Based on the book “La Question Humaine” by François Emmanuel, Heartbeat Detector unfolds a quietly riveting mystery of blackmail and intrigue, as the long-buried secrets of high-powered corporate executives threaten to bring them down.

Directed By: Nicolas Klotz

Written By: François Emmanuel, Elisabeth Perceval

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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67% Positive
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33% Mixed
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91
It's a thin line between 20th-century Nazism and 21st-century corporate culture in Heartbeat Detector, Nicolas Klotz's rewardingly chilly psychological thriller.
By Lisa Schwarzbaum FULL REVIEW
83
Amalric gives another in a recent string of riveting performances, and Klotz gets a lot of play out of the ironic distance between musical expression and corporate rigor.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
70
Here, knowledge and understanding raise more questions than they answer, and the film ends not in closure, but in openness. It is precisely those qualities that give Heartbeat Detector its epic sense of humanity. Take them away and you'd be left with a leaner but markedly less compelling workaday workplace thriller: "Michael Clayton" with Nazis instead of lawyers.
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Both pertinent and discomfiting, this sober, well-cast drama remains quietly riveting, despite its 140-minute running time.
By Lisa Nesselson FULL REVIEW
63
A chilling corporate thriller with an intriguing mystery on the surface and a deeply troubling idea at its dark core.
By Ken Fox FULL REVIEW
60
The movie is, arguably, too long and overladen with ideas. Klotz and Perceval are particularly keen on nailing the use and abuse of language in formatting human behavior.
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50
Director Nicolas Klotz paces his mystery plot so luxuriously that it feels like a ride in a company limo, though his ultimate thesis, that corporate culture is inherently fascist, hardly seems worth the trip. The saving grace is Amalric, who looks so sharp in a tailored suit that he can't sense himself rotting from within.
By J.R. Jones FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Sophie Dulac Productions, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), CinéCinéma, Conseil Général de la Sarthe, Conseil Général du Val de Marne, Conseil Régional des Pays de la Loire, La Région Île-de-France
Release Date Mar 14, 2008
Duration 2 h 23 m
Rating Not Rated
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Awards

Gijón International Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
SESC Film Festival, Brazil
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
São Paulo International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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