The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005)
Like his father, Tom is a real estate agent who makes his money from dirty, and sometimes brutal, deals. But a chance encounter prompts him to take up the piano and become a concert pianist. He auditions with the help of a beautiful, young virtuoso pianist who cannot speak French - music is their only exchange. But pressures from the ugly world of his day job soon become more than he can handle.
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You won't be disappointed!
Too much of everything
Memorable, crazy movie
The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
Just start the movie, I know how it will end. It is a movie full of typical characters, the characters are drawn as by fifteen year old who make their first scripts.It is very long and the worst of all is that then it solves everything in two minutes, do not stop for so much film. If it were that the character is in progression could understand it but it is not progression, does not advance and then blow is another.The actors are fine that true. Although I do not think the casting is very well done, if we had a friend like that and he told us what happens to him in the movie, we would not believe him.The photograph of the film, if it exists, is too white. It is very French, no information.The address, telling me that I have become long, does not advance, only knows how to make close-ups, does not know how to narrate or compose, let's say I do not like it.In short, it is not what I expected, but I will soon forget it
it is a special film. for music, for story as a puzzle, for performance of Roland Duris who escapes from adultescence roles, and, sure, for its director vision. because it is only a confession about dream and about reality, need to escape from a circle for be yourself. brutal, violent and poetic. intense. and useful reflection of a state of soul and small things who define every day frustrations. the American cinema touch and the essence of French cinema - this could be the key of a beautiful film about a fight with precise target. and the motif for discover The Beat that my heart skipped as a kind of revelation about art. not new, not original but touching and profound. as sketch of a way to the truth. remembering French new wave, it is one of films who gives new perspectives about existence.
A nice look at the thug, shows that a thug can change for the better but never really does. Shot nicely and well acted, but as with a lot of French films I often feel that something is missing, a bit of umph, a bit of extra drama to draw you in makes you really feel for the characters, never the less this is the best french film for that I have seen, and therefore gets a well deserved 7/10.Not a must see, but is very enjoyable, one for those French film fans more than just film fans.Extra steps needed to take this from a good film to a brilliant or excellent one.
I think the people who have posted rave reviews for this film have seen too many movies and are ready to go nuts if the movie is in French. Honestly, there is nothing interesting about some small time thug trying to re-establish his potential as a classical piano player. I mean come on, who cares? The character is all over the place in terms of emotions and in the end amounts to little. American film buffs who drool over Euro-trash productions and see things in them that are not there, just boggle my mind. Get outside into the sun and pull some weeds, folks, you will be doing yourself a huge favor. Stop stunting your mind with artsy, pretentious movies that you think make you look like an intellectual.