The 34th

9, 16, 17/12

Lecture Hall, HK Space Museum
Theatre, HK City Hall
Cinema, HK Film Archive

French Cinepanorama

2005 / Color 彩色 / 107 mins
Drama 劇情片
English Subtitles 英文字幕

Director 導演：
Jacques Audiard 積克．奧迪雅

Cast 演員 ：
Romain Duris, Niels Arestrup, Linh Dan Pham, Aure Atika, Emmanuelle Devos        
羅曼．杜里、尼埃爾．阿雷士托、
奧爾．阿迪卡、艾曼妞．德芙

In this follow-up to his critically acclaimed Read my Lips , Jacques Audiard has adapted and updated James Toback's cult 1978 noir Fingers to come up with this memorable character study about a young man torn between a life of crime and classical music. The Beat That my Heart Skipped premiered at Berlin 2005, where it played to enthusiastic audiences and won the Silver Bear for Best Score. Romain Duris ( Exiles , The Spanish Apartment ), in a standout performance, portrays the 28 year-old Tom who leads a life that might be termed as criminal. In doing so he follows in his father's footsteps, who made his money from dirty and sometimes brutal real estate deals.

Tom is a pretty hard-boiled guy, witty and sexy, but also strangely considerate as far as his father is concerned. Somehow he appears to have arrived at a critical juncture in his life whereby he takes it upon himself to become his parents' educator.
One day, a chance encounter prompts him to take up the piano and become a concert pianist, like his mother. He senses that this might be his final opportunity to take his life in hand. He starts piano lessons; his teacher is a Chinese piano virtuoso 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.