The Beat that My Heart Skipped

Tom is 28 and destined to follow in his father’s footsteps in the sleazy and sometimes brutal world of the real estate business. But a chance encounter leads him to believe that he can become, like his mother, a concert pianist. In earnest, he starts preparing for the audition with a virtuoso Chinese pianist. She doesn’t speak a word of 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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Script: Jacques Audiard, Tonino Benaquista, based on the film Fingers by James Toback
Cinematography: Stephane Fontaine
Editing: Juliette Welfling
Sound: Brigitte Taillandier, Pascal Villard, Cyril Holtz, Philippe Amouroux
Music: Alexandre Desplat
Actors: Romain Duris (Tom), Aure Atika (Aline), Emmanuelle Devos (Chris), Linh Dan Pham (Miao-Lin), Niels Arestrup (Robert), Jonathan Zaccai (Fabrice), Gilles Cohen (Sami)
Production: Why Not Productions, France T. +33 1 4824 2450 F. +33 1 4824 2451 contact@whynotproductions. fr www.whynotproductions.fr
Producers: Pascal Caucheteux
Co-production: Sedif (France) & France 3 Cinema
Costumes: Virginie Montel
Production Design: Francois Emmanuelli
Format: 35mm Color
Production Country: France
Production Year: 2005
Duration: 107
Distribution in Greece: Rosebud – Zinos Panayotidis T. +30 210 6786505, F. +30 210 6755067 zpan@odeon.gr www.odeon.gr
Contact: Celluloid Dreams, France T. +33 1 4970 0370, F. +33 1 4970 0371 info@celluloid-dreams.com www.celluloid-dreams.com

Jacques Audiard

He was born in Paris in 1952. He is the son of screenwriter and director Michel Audiard. He studied philosophy and literature at the Sorbonne and subsequently worked in theater before he began writing his own screenplays in the mid-80s (occasionally in collaboration with his father). He made his first feature film in 1994. His second film, Un Heros tres discret was nominated for a Cesar Award. Sur mes levres was shown in the Panorama Section of the Berlinale in 2002 and won many awards in festivals around the world.

Filmography

1994 Regarde les homes tomber
1996 Un Heros tres discret
1998 Norme Francais
2001 Sur mes levres
2005 De battre mon coeur s’est arrete/The Beat that My Heart Skipped
2009 Un prophete