Double Feature: THE BEAT THAT MY HEART SKIPPED (DE BATTRE MON COEUR S’EST ARRETE) & IN PARIS (DANS PARIS) August 28, 2010

Unifrance Presents, with the Support of the French Film and TV Office, French Embassy, Sponsored by TV5:

French Actor Romain Duris In Person!

Double Feature: THE BEAT THAT MY HEART SKIPPED (DE BATTRE MON COEUR S’EST ARRETE), 2005, New Yorker Films, 108 min. Jacques Audiard’s (A PROPHET) French-language remake of James Toback's FINGERS retains that film's premise - the story of a concert pianist employed by the mob - but takes it in a more contemplative, romantic direction. Romain Duris is superb as the hero, whose life grows increasingly complicated as he tries to remain true to himself.
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IN PARIS (DANS PARIS), 2006, IFC, 92 min. Dir. Christophe Honoré. When Paul (Romain Duris) gets dumped by his girlfriend, he moves back home with his dad and womanizing brother; the result is a charming meditation on love and its disappointments. “A genuinely honest, unpretentious and delightful, small film... the pic's understanding of depression, embodied by the chameleon-like Romain Duris, is as accurate as it is unadorned by artifice.” – Jay Weissberg, Variety Discussion between films with actor Romain Duris.
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