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The Beat That My Heart Skipped
The Beat That My Heart Skipped
French	De battre mon cœur s'est arrêté
Directed by	Jacques Audiard
Written by	Jacques Audiard; Tonino Benacquista
Based on	Fingers; by James Toback
Produced by	Pascal Caucheteux
Starring	Romain Duris; Niels Arestrup; Jonathan Zaccaï; Gilles Cohen; Linh Dan Pham; Aure Atika; Emmanuelle Devos; Melanie Laurent
Cinematography	Stéphane Fontaine
Edited by	Juliette Welfling
Music by	Alexandre Desplat
Distributed by	UGC Fox Distribution
Release dates	17 February 2005 (Berlin); 16 March 2005 (France);
Running time	107 minutes
Land	Frankreich
Sprache	French
Budget	$6.2 million
Box office	$6.5 million

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The Beat That My Heart Skipped (French: De battre mon cœur s'est arrêté) is a 2005 French neo-noir drama film directed by Jacques Audiard and starring Romain Duris. It is a remake of the 1978 American film Fingers, and tells the story of Tom, a shady realtor torn between a criminal life and his desire to become a concert pianist. The film premiered on 17 February 2005 at the Berlin Film Festival. The film was given limited release to theaters in North America and grossed $1,023,424 and $10,988,397 worldwide.

Plot

Intense young "tough" Thomas Seyr is a 28-year-old real estate broker involved in shady business deals. His business partners, Fabrice and Sami, spend much of their time ruthlessly chasing squatters and illegal immigrants out of the buildings they have procured and trying to work their way around government housing regulations. Thomas is born to this kind of work, his father, Robert, is involved in dodgy endeavors and sometimes calls upon Thomas to beat up people who refuse to pay. Tom shows a protective and defensive attitude toward his father who does not always appreciate what his son does for him – so much so that when his father introduces his new girlfriend to Tom, Tom undermines her to her face, and insults her to his father, insisting she is an opportunistic "whore." Later, when he tries to enlist her help to watch over his father, she tells him they broke up due to Robert changing his attitude and she is aware of Tom's backstabbing because Robert told her. Robert by this time is in danger from a Russian gangster, Minskov, who scammed him out of 300,000 euros and Tom is worried for his safety.

Tom chances upon his late mother's manager, his mother having been a concert pianist until she died eight years before. The manager remembers him playing something when he was twenty years old, and invites him to audition for him. The opportunity rapidly takes over Tom's imagination, becoming an obsession. He finds a teacher newly emigrated to France, virtuoso Miao Lin, to help him prepare for the audition. She speaks only Chinese, Vietnamese and some English, but no French. Tom misses appointments and drops assignments while practicing piano around the clock, and having an affair with the wife of one of his promiscuous business partners. Tom reaches the high standards of his teacher, but falls apart at the audition, having stayed up all night helping his partners with a business deal. He goes to see his father only to find the apartment destroyed and his father murdered. Tom is devastated.

Two years later, Tom tests a piano onstage and gives directions to the stage manager. He drives Miao Lin to the concert hall and parks the car, when he chances to see Minskov. He follows Minskov, and takes him by surprise waiting for an elevator. They fight in the stairwell, Minskov almost shooting Tom. Tom gains the upper hand and tries to use Minskov's own gun against him, but cannot pull the trigger. Tom washes in the restroom and takes his seat in the concert hall, knuckles and shirt bloody, exchanging affectionate glances with Miao Lin at the piano. He is evidently Miao Lin's manager and partner.

Cast

Romain Duris as Thomas Seyr
Niels Arestrup as Robert Seyr
Jonathan Zaccaï as Fabrice
Gilles Cohen [FR] as Sami
Linh Dan Pham as Miao Lin
Jian-Zhang as Jean-Pierre (Miao Lin's friend)
Aure Atika as Aline
Anton Yakovlev [FR] as Minskov
Mélanie Laurent as Minskov's Girlfriend
Emmanuelle Devos as Chris
Sandy Whitelaw as Fox

Background

The film is a remake of James Toback's 1978 film Fingers, but it devotes more attention to the relationship between Tom and his piano teacher, Miao Lin. The idea that affection can blossom despite a language barrier is one which Jacques Audiard has raised before in Read My Lips (starring Vincent Cassel).

For the film, Duris learned to play his own piano sequences–most notably, Bach's Toccata in E minor, trained by his sister, pianist Caroline Duris, who performs on the soundtrack.^[5]

The film's French title comes from the lyrics of the Jacques Dutronc song "La Fille du père Noël" ("Santa Claus's Daughter"), written by Jacques Lanzmann. It translates to English as "My heart stopped beating."

Awards and nominations

Won

BAFTA Awards
- Best Film not in the English Language
Berlin Film Festival
- Silver Berlin Bear: Best Film Music (Alexandre Desplat)
César Awards
- Best Actor – Supporting Role (Niels Arestrup)
- Best Cinematography (Stéphane Fontaine)
- Best Director (Jacques Audiard)
- Best Editing (Juliette Welfling)
- Best Film
- Best Music Written for a Film (Alexandre Desplat)
- Best Screenplay – Adapted (Jacques Audiard and Tonino Benacquista)
- Most Promising Actress (Linh Dan Pham)
French Syndicate of Cinema Critics
- Best Film
Lumières Award
- Best Film
- Best Actor (Romain Duris)
Seville European Film Festival
- Golden Giraldillo to Best Film^[6]

Nominated

Berlin Film Festival
- Golden Berlin Bear (Jacques Audiard)
César Awards
- Best Actor – Leading Role (Romain Duris)
- Best Sound (Philippe Amouroux, Cyril Holtz, Brigitte Taillandier and Pascal Villard)
European Film Awards
- Best Actor (Romain Duris)
- (Audience Award) Best Director (Jacques Audiard)

References

^ "Beat That My Heart Skipped (The) (2005)". UniFrance. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
^ "Film #23755: De battre mon coeur s'est arrêté". Lumiere. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
^ "De battre mon cœur s'est arrêté (The Beat That My Heart Skipped) (2005)". jpbox-office.com.
^ "De battre mon coeur s'est arrete". Archived from the original on 23 October 2017. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
^ Toumani, Meline (10 July 2005). "The 60-Day Course in Perfect Fake Piano Playing". The New York Times. Retrieved 3 January 2008.
^ "Seville dances to Audiard's 'Beat'". Variety. 15 November 2005.

External links

[1] "Beat That My Heart Skipped (The) (2005)". UniFrance. Retrieved 30 June 2021.

[2] "Film #23755: De battre mon coeur s'est arrêté". Lumiere. Retrieved 30 June 2021.

[3] "De battre mon cœur s'est arrêté (The Beat That My Heart Skipped) (2005)". jpbox-office.com.

[4] "De battre mon coeur s'est arrete". Archived from the original on 23 October 2017. Retrieved 19 February 2020.

[5] Toumani, Meline (10 July 2005). "The 60-Day Course in Perfect Fake Piano Playing". The New York Times. Retrieved 3 January 2008.

[6] "Seville dances to Audiard's 'Beat'". Variety. 15 November 2005.

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 ==Plot==
-Intense young "tough" Thomas Seyr is a 28-year-old [[real estate]] broker involved in shady business deals. His business partners, Fabrice and Sami, spend much of their time ruthlessly chasing squatters and illegal immigrants out of the buildings they have procured and trying to work their way around government housing regulations. Thomas is born to this kind of work; his father, Robert, is involved in dodgy endeavors and sometimes calls upon Thomas to beat up people who refuse to pay. Tom shows a protective and defensive attitude toward his father who doesn't always appreciate what his son does for him – so much so that when his father introduces his new girlfriend to Tom, Tom undermines her to her face, and insults her to his father, insisting she is an opportunistic "whore." Later, when he tries to enlist her help to watch over his father, she tells him they broke up due to Robert changing his attitude and she is aware of Tom's backstabbing because Robert told her. Robert by this time is in danger from a Russian gangster, Minskov (Anton Yakovlev) who scammed him out of 300,000 Euros and Tom is worried for his safety.
+Intense young "tough" Thomas Seyr is a 28-year-old [[real estate]] broker involved in shady business deals. His business partners, Fabrice and Sami, spend much of their time ruthlessly chasing squatters and illegal immigrants out of the buildings they have procured and trying to work their way around government housing regulations. Thomas is born to this kind of work, his father, Robert, is involved in dodgy endeavors and sometimes calls upon Thomas to beat up people who refuse to pay. Tom shows a protective and defensive attitude toward his father who does not always appreciate what his son does for him – so much so that when his father introduces his new girlfriend to Tom, Tom undermines her to her face, and insults her to his father, insisting she is an opportunistic "whore." Later, when he tries to enlist her help to watch over his father, she tells him they broke up due to Robert changing his attitude and she is aware of Tom's backstabbing because Robert told her. Robert by this time is in danger from a Russian gangster, Minskov, who scammed him out of 300,000 euros and Tom is worried for his safety.
-Tom chances upon his late mother's manager, his mother having been a concert pianist until she died 8 years previously. The manager remembers him playing something when he was 20 years old, and invites him to audition for him. The opportunity rapidly takes over Tom's imagination, becoming an obsession. He finds a teacher newly emigrated to France, virtuoso Miao Lin, to help him prepare for the audition. She speaks only Chinese, Vietnamese and some English, but no French. Tom misses appointments and drops assignments while practicing piano around the clock, and having an affair with the wife of one of his promiscuous business partners. Finally Tom reaches the high standards of his teacher, but he falls apart at the audition, having stayed up all night helping his partners with a business deal. He goes to see his father only to find the apartment destroyed and his father murdered. Tom is devastated.
+Tom chances upon his late mother's manager, his mother having been a concert pianist until she died eight years before. The manager remembers him playing something when he was twenty years old, and invites him to audition for him. The opportunity rapidly takes over Tom's imagination, becoming an obsession. He finds a teacher newly emigrated to France, virtuoso Miao Lin, to help him prepare for the audition. She speaks only Chinese, Vietnamese and some English, but no French. Tom misses appointments and drops assignments while practicing piano around the clock, and having an affair with the wife of one of his promiscuous business partners. Tom reaches the high standards of his teacher, but falls apart at the audition, having stayed up all night helping his partners with a business deal. He goes to see his father only to find the apartment destroyed and his father murdered. Tom is devastated.
-Two years later: Tom tests a piano onstage and gives directions to the stage manager. He drives Miao Lin to the concert hall and parks the car, when he chances to see Minskov. He follows Minskov, and takes him by surprise waiting for an elevator. They fight in the stairwell, Minskov almost shooting Tom. Tom gains the upper hand and tries to use Minskov's own gun against him, but cannot pull the trigger. Tom washes in the restroom and takes his seat in the concert hall, knuckles and shirt bloody, exchanging affectionate glances with Miao Lin at the piano. He is evidently Miao Lin's manager and partner.
+Two years later, Tom tests a piano onstage and gives directions to the stage manager. He drives Miao Lin to the concert hall and parks the car, when he chances to see Minskov. He follows Minskov, and takes him by surprise waiting for an elevator. They fight in the stairwell, Minskov almost shooting Tom. Tom gains the upper hand and tries to use Minskov's own gun against him, but cannot pull the trigger. Tom washes in the restroom and takes his seat in the concert hall, knuckles and shirt bloody, exchanging affectionate glances with Miao Lin at the piano. He is evidently Miao Lin's manager and partner.
 ==Cast==
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 * [[Niels Arestrup]] as Robert Seyr
 * [[Jonathan Zaccaï]] as Fabrice
-* {{ill|Gilles Cohen|fr|Gilles Cohen}} as Sami
+* {{ill|Gilles Cohen|FR|Gilles Cohen}} as Sami
 * [[Linh Dan Pham]] as Miao Lin
 * [[Jian-Zhang]] as Jean-Pierre (Miao Lin's friend)
 * [[Aure Atika]] as Aline
-* [[Emmanuelle Devos]] as Chris
 * {{ill|Anton Yakovlev|FR|Anton Yakovlev}} as Minskov
 * [[Mélanie Laurent]] as Minskov's Girlfriend
-* [[Sandy Whitelaw]] as Mr. Fox
+* [[Emmanuelle Devos]] as Chris
+* [[Sandy Whitelaw]] as Fox
 ==Background==
-The film is a [[remake]] of [[James Toback]]'s 1978 film ''[[Fingers (1978 film)|Fingers]]'', but it devotes more attention to the relationship between Tom and his piano teacher, Miao Lin. The idea that affection can blossom despite a language barrier is one which [[Jacques Audiard]] has raised before in ''[[Sur mes lèvres|Read My Lips]]'' (starring [[Vincent Cassel]]).
+The film is a [[remake]] of [[James Toback]]'s 1978 film ''[[Fingers (1978 film)|Fingers]],'' but it devotes more attention to the relationship between Tom and his piano teacher, Miao Lin. The idea that affection can blossom despite a language barrier is one which [[Jacques Audiard]] has raised before in ''[[Sur mes lèvres|Read My Lips]]'' (starring [[Vincent Cassel]]).
-For the film, Duris learned to play his own piano sequences–most notably, [[Bach]]'s [[Toccata]] in E minor, trained by his sister, pianist Caroline Duris, who performs on the soundtrack.<ref>{{cite news| last =Toumani| first =Meline| title =The 60-Day Course in Perfect Fake Piano Playing| newspaper =[[The New York Times]]| date =10 July 2005| url =https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/10/movies/10toum.html?pagewanted=all| access-date =3 January 2008 }}</ref>
+For the film, Duris learned to play his own piano sequences–most notably, [[Bach]]'s [[Toccata]] in E minor, trained by his sister, pianist Caroline Duris, who performs on the soundtrack.<ref>{{cite news|last=Toumani|first=Meline|title=The 60-Day Course in Perfect Fake Piano Playing|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=July 10, 2005|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/10/movies/10toum.html?pagewanted=all|access-date=January 3, 2008}}</ref>
-The film's French title comes from the lyrics of the [[Jacques Dutronc]] song ''La Fille du père Noël'' ("Santa Claus' Daughter"), written by [[Jacques Lanzmann]]. It translates to English as "My heart stopped beating".
+The film's French title comes from the lyrics of the [[Jacques Dutronc]] song "La Fille du père Noël" ("Santa Claus's Daughter"), written by [[Jacques Lanzmann]]. It translates to English as "My heart stopped beating."
 ==Awards and nominations==
 ===Won===
 *'''[[59th British Academy Film Awards|BAFTA Awards]]'''
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 **[[Lumières Award for Best Film|Best Film]]
 **[[Lumières Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]] ([[Romain Duris]])
+*'''[[Seville European Film Festival]]'''
+**[[Golden Giraldillo to Best Film]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2005/film/news/seville-dances-to-audiard-s-beat-1117932957/|website=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|title=Seville dances to Audiard's 'Beat'|date=November 15, 2005}}</ref>
 ===Nominated===
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 **(Audience Award) Best Director ([[Jacques Audiard]])
-== References ==
+==References==
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 ==External links==
-* {{IMDb title|0411270|The Beat That My Heart Skipped}}
+* {{IMDb title|0411270}}
+* {{Mojo title|thebeatthatmyheartskipped}}
-* {{Rotten Tomatoes|beat_that_my_heart_skipped|The Beat That My Heart Skipped}}
+* {{Rotten Tomatoes|the_beat_that_my_heart_skipped}}
-* {{Metacritic film|the-beat-that-my-heart-skipped|The Beat That My Heart Skipped}}
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v t e Jacques Audiard
Films directed	See How They Fall (1994) A Self-Made Hero (1996) Read My Lips (2001) The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005) A Prophet (2009) Rust and Bone (2012) Dheepan (2015) The Sisters Brothers (2018) Paris, 13th District (2021) Emilia Pérez (2024)
Films written only	The Professional (1981) Deadly Circuit (1983) All Mixed Up (1985) Frequent Death (1988) Australia (1989) Baxter (1989) Barjo (1992) Dead Tired (1994) Venus Beauty Institute (1999)