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  • 2005
  • Not Rated
  • Wellspring Media
  • 1 h 48 m
  • 2005
  • Not Rated
  • Wellspring Media
  • 1 h 48 m
The Beat That My Heart Skipped

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)

Directed By: Jacques Audiard

Written By: Tonino Benacquista, James Toback, Jacques Audiard

  • 2005
  • Not Rated
  • Wellspring Media
  • 1 h 48 m
  • 2005
  • Not Rated
  • Wellspring Media
  • 1 h 48 m

The Beat That My Heart Skipped

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 32 Critic Reviews
75
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 22 User Ratings
7.5
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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)

Directed By: Jacques Audiard

Written By: Tonino Benacquista, James Toback, Jacques Audiard

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 32 Critic Reviews
75
75% Positive
24 Reviews
22% Mixed
7 Reviews
3% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 32 Critic Reviews
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75% Positive
24 Reviews
22% Mixed
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3% Negative
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100
Unpretentiously fantastic.
By M. E. Russell FULL REVIEW
90
Audiard's take is fevered, immediate, and hopeful--a story of a man recovering his soul. The most intense and compelling sections of The Beat are almost word for word from "Fingers" (albeit translated into French), but this beat changes everything.
By David Edelstein FULL REVIEW
83
It's a film that, by its complexity of character and mastery of tone, surpasses the original it was intended to honor.
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80
Might not be as intriguingly odd as the picture that inspired it. But like that earlier picture, it bristles with life and energy. It's a movie made with equal measures of bravado and humility -- the same mix of qualities you need to play Beethoven, Mozart or Bach.
By Stephanie Zacharek FULL REVIEW
75
Even when deadly silent, though, as he is through most of the film, Duris is brutally eloquent.
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60
It lacks "Fingers" searing, explosive vitality.
By Maitland McDonagh FULL REVIEW
30
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.
By Stanley Kauffmann FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 22 User Ratings
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86% Positive
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9% Mixed
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5% Negative
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5% Negative
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Production Company Why Not Productions, Sédif Productions, France 3 Cinéma, Cofimage 15, Canal+, CinéCinéma, La Région Île-de-France
Release Date Jul 1, 2005
Duration 1 h 48 m
Rating Not Rated
Genres
Tagline Can music tame the raging soul?
Website http://www.wellspring.com/movies/movie.html?movie_id=63
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Awards

César Awards, France
• 8 Wins & 10 Nominations
Étoiles d'Or, France
• 4 Wins & 4 Nominations
Globes de Cristal Awards, France
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations

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