Distribution Territory/ies:
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Hungary
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Slovenia
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Finland
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English Title: The beat that my heart skipped

Coproducing Contry/ies:  France 

Production Company/ies: Why Not Productions

Website: www.whynotproductions.fr

Director: Jacques Audiard

Script: Jacques Audiard / Tonino Benaquista

Cast: Romain Duris / Aure Atika / Emmanuelle Devos / Linh Dan Pham / Niels Arestrup

Synopsis: In 1977, Harvey Keitel appeared in James Toback's thriller FINGERS as the Janus-faced concert pianist and debt collector Jimmy Angelelli. 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. 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 the son 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.

Before long, Jacques' 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?