Beat That My Heart Skipped (ej svensk text)

THE BEAT THAT MY HEART SKIPPED is based on the 1977 James Toback thriller “Fingers”, which starred Harvey Keitel as the Janus-faced concert pianist and debt collector Jimmy Angelelli. The highly talented French Director Jacques Audiard follows his two earlier successes, “Read My Lips” and “A Self Made Hero” with this involving and gripping tale which boasts the extraordinarily compelling performance by the young actor, Romain Duris, now a rising star in France. Critically acclaimed by the French press, THE BEAT THAT MY HEART SKIPPED has also been a huge and popular success amongst the public in France. The protagonist in Jacques Audiard’s latest version of the story is based on Keitel’s character. In this film, twenty-eight-year-old Tom leads a life that might be termed as criminal - following in his father’s footsteps in the sleazy and sometimes brutal world of the real estate business. Tom is a pretty hard-boiled guy, witty and sexy, but also strangely considerate. Somehow he appears to have arrived at a critical juncture in his life whereby, as the son, he takes it upon himself to become his parents' educator. One day, a chance encounter leads him to believe that he might become, like his mother, a concert pianist. He senses that this might be his final opportunity to take his life in hand... He starts in earnest to prepare for the audition with a virtuoso Chinese pianist who has recently come to live in France. She doesn't speak a word of French and music is the only language they have in common. But before long pressures from the ugly world of his day job soon becomes more than he can handle and Tom's bid to be a better person means that he begins to yearn for true love... But when he finally has the chance of winning his best friend’s wife - a woman he has desired for years - his passion only succeeds in scaring her. And then, one day, his dubious past comes to light...