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The Beat That My Heart Skipped
A ruthless real estate agent discovers a passion for piano and auditions with help from a young virtuoso, but the pressures of his corrupt career threaten to derail his musical aspirations.
2005 · Directed by Jacques Audiard · 107 min · Drama · Crime · 13 frames
Tagline
Can music tame the raging soul?
Crew
- Screenplay: Tonino Benacquista, Jacques Audiard
- Cinematography: Stéphane Fontaine
- Edited by: Juliette Welfling
- Music: Alexandre Desplat
- Production design: François Emmanuelli
- Produced by: Pascal Caucheteux
Cast
- Romain Duris as Thomas Seyr
- Niels Arestrup as Robert Seyr
- Jonathan Zaccaï as Fabrice
- Gilles Cohen as Sami
- Linh-Dan Pham as Miao Lin
- Aure Atika as Aline
- Emmanuelle Devos as Chris
- Anton Yakovlev as Minskov
- Mélanie Laurent as Minskov's Girlfriend
- Agnès Aubé as Woman
Production
- Country: France
- Language: English, Mandarin, French, Russian, Vietnamese
- Studios: Why Not Productions, Sédif Productions, France 3 Cinéma
- Budget: $6,400,000
- Box office: $9,293,785
- Themes: estate agent, concert, paris, france, parent child relationship, loss of loved one, classical music, chinese woman, piano lessons, squatter, pianist
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