The Beat That My Heart Skipped Articles

Derek Elley on Looking for Eric (above, Ken Loach and Eric Cantona) in Variety: "… helmer Ken Loach and writer Paul Laverty's ninth feature together is a curious hybrid: Three movies — boilerplate, socially aware Loach; personal fantasy; romantic comedy — wrap around a central core of a hopeless soccer fanatic who's given a second chance to sort out his life. As in many of [...]

Romain Duris, Linh Dan Pham in The Beat That My Heart Skipped Jacques Audiard's curious but uninvolving psychological drama De battre, mon coeur s'est arrêté / The Beat That My Heart Skipped — a remake of James Toback's Fingers (1978) — won eight César awards, including best film, best director, best adapted screenplay (Audiard with Tonino Benacquista), and best supporting actor (Niels Arestrup) at the [...]

2006 César Awards 2006 César du Cinéma winners: Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris on February 25, 2006 2006 César Nominations ("*" denotes the winner in each category)   Romain Duris in The Beat That My Heart Skipped   Meilleur film français / Best French Film * De battre, mon coeur s'est arrêté / The Beat That My Heart Skipped (Jacques Audiard) Joyeux Noël / Merry [...]

Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain (top); Viggo Mortensen in A History of Violence (middle); Tony Leung, Gong Li, Ziyi Zhang in 2046 (bottom) Sight & Sound's Top-Ten (actually top-fourteen) Films 1 Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee) 2 A History of Violence (David Cronenberg) and La Niña santa / The Holy Girl (Lucretia Martel) 4 2046 (Wong Kar Wai) and Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki) 6 [...]