The Beat That My Heart Skipped

24 October 7.30pm – Ventnor Winter Gardens
France 2005 107 minutes Cert 15
Dir: Jacques Audiard
Cast: Romain Duris, Niels Arestrup, Jonathan Zaccai, Linh Dan Pham

In this compulsively watchable thriller, Tom works as an enforcer and violent rent collector for his father, yet dreams of becoming a concert pianist like his mother. In the real world he is being pulled inexorably into his father’s vicious criminal lifestyle but a chance meeting with a young Vietnamese woman pianist, with whom he shares no language other than that of music, proves to be decisive.