The Beat That My Heart Skipped

The Beat That My Heart Skipped
FrenchDe battre mon cœur s'est arrêté
Directed byJacques Audiard
Written byJacques Audiard
Tonino Benacquista
Based onFingers
by James Toback
Produced byPascal Caucheteux
StarringRomain Duris
Niels Arestrup
Jonathan Zaccaï
Gilles Cohen
Linh Dan Pham
Aure Atika
Emmanuelle Devos
Melanie Laurent
CinematographyStéphane Fontaine
Edited byJuliette Welfling
Music byAlexandre Desplat
Distributed byUGC Fox Distribution[1][2]
Release dates
  • 17 February 2005 (2005-02-17) (Berlin)
  • 16 March 2005 (2005-03-16) (France)
Running time
107 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
Budget$6.2 million[3]
Box office$6.5 million[4]

The Beat That My Heart Skipped (French: De battre mon cœur s'est arrêté) is a 2005 French neo-noir drama film directed by Jacques Audiard and starring Romain Duris. It is a remake of the 1978 American film Fingers, and tells the story of Tom, a shady realtor torn between a criminal life and his desire to become a concert pianist. The film premiered on 17 February 2005 at the Berlin Film Festival. The film was given limited release to theaters in North America and grossed $1,023,424 and $10,988,397 worldwide.

  1. ^ "Beat That My Heart Skipped (The) (2005)". UniFrance. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
  2. ^ "Film #23755: De battre mon coeur s'est arrêté". Lumiere. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
  3. ^ "De battre mon cœur s'est arrêté (The Beat That My Heart Skipped) (2005)". jpbox-office.com.
  4. ^ "De battre mon coeur s'est arrete". Archived from the original on 23 October 2017. Retrieved 19 February 2020.