The Beat That My Heart Skipped (De Battre mon coeur s'est arrete) Critic Reviews

What has resulted is a blistering film you feel in the pit of your stomach, a jumpy, edgy piece of work that thrusts us into a personal maelstrom so tortured and intense, the emotions could be spread with a knife.Read the full review

Audiard's superb remake improves on the original significantly, investing it with aesthetic grandeur and emotional depth.Read the full review

Audiard's take is fevered, immediate, and hopeful--a story of a man recovering his soul. The most intense and compelling sections of The Beat are almost word for word from "Fingers" (albeit translated into French), but this beat changes everything.Read the full review

There are remakes and there are remakes. I don't want to belabor the flaws and sexual excesses of the original; its great strength was its explosive energy. Still, this one investigates the unfulfilled potential of the first one so thoroughly, and develops it so audaciously, that it qualifies as a brilliant reinvention.Read the full review

The film confirms director Audiard as a master of visual mood, in this case one of barely expressed emotional panic.Read the full review

The Beat That My Heart Skipped lacks the screw-loose existential vibrance of "Fingers," yet it teases out a romantic underside to the original I never quite knew was there.Read the full review

As tense and taut as any crime saga, but the stakes are more personal.Read the full review

A nifty piece of work -- with, by the way, a fantastic musical score and soundtrack -- that, if there's any justice in the movie world, will eventually earn a mystique all its own.Read the full review

Doesn't replace "Fingers," but joins it as the portrait of a man reaching out desperately toward his dying ideals.Read the full review