the premise be far fetch but simple . approach thirty and tom seyre ( romain duris ) be work hard a an enforcer and violent rent collector for his dad and a scumbag real estate tycoon ( niels arestrup ) . but a chance encounter start him think he might be the talented concert pianist he once dream of and in the image of his late mother . without stop his usual work he try to prepare an audition . base on a flop more admired in france than the u and james toback 70 harvey keitel vehicle about a violent would be pianist and finger and this compulsively watchable and thrillingly accomplish new movie by jacques audiard ( de battre mon cur sest arrêté and still show in paris a it open here ) echo his previous compellingly offbeat read my lip in graft together two separate moral universe . read my lip depict the odd alliance of a firecracker ex con ( vincent cassel ) and a mild mannered but angry hearing impaired office worker ( emmanuelle devos ) . it be an intriguing piece but seem low energy in retrospect compare to this . audiard have make a powerful actor movie in which duris bloom and a powerful actor now and play in effect both the cassel and the devos part and act out the result implosion of violence and frustrate artistic passion with astonishing zest . it hard to believe he be the tame college student narrator of klapich lauberge espagnole three year ago . duris a tom be good look but vaguely burn out and his eye a bit crazy and his hair neatly coif and his jaw firm and have mouth a smile snarl . the camera be on that square jaw every minute . uniform in boot and smart pant and tie and trim leather jacket and he an elegant young hoodlum who can switch to a dark suit for a real estate hearing or audition and or wipe the blood off his cuff to enter a café or concert hall . he angry all the time but bring vibrant energy to both of his conflict life . tom find a beautiful long haired young master pianist call miao lin ( linh dan pham ) to coach him in piano . these encounter with the keyboard he approach like a prize fighter go at a punching bag . if he an artist it the hairy chested and coil and macho kind . how can you teach anybody pianistic excellence . the impossibility of the process be signal by the teacher speak no french . she harangue tom in vietnamese and or just say in english over and over and again or no . or no smoking allow . a cup of tea in the kitchen at end of session . tom go at the same piece over and over and a bach toccata . this relationship be an oasis of calm in tom otherwise loca vida the contrast in such a piece a this be telegraph without much subtlety but the unconventionality of the pair help the scene to avoid cliché . and the intensity be just as focus in these quiet moment . there be other strong relationship . tom isn not isolate while he work with partner and one of whom use him to hide his two timing from his wife . arestrup and who look like a french version of late brando and be superb a the blowsy and burn out father and a big sensualist and an irresistible presence and always smoke drinking and eating and soft but nasty and irritate but impossible for tom not to love and protect . tom pursues minskov ( anton yakovlev ) and a russian mafioso his dad have tangle with and and wind up sleep with minskov french girlfriend as well a somebody else wife . every encounter he have be reckless and intense . duris doesn not fail u in any of this . emmanuelle devos be his dad new girlfriend and whom tom first call a whore and reject and then want to hire on to calm thing on the home front . where it all go to end . despite all that go on and a one french critic say and there no fat in this picture . the push and pull of the hero dilemma make for fabulously kinetic editing and the action never go soft . a final sequel resolve thing . some say it mild than the american version and but that overlook the visceral punch of the action throughout . the dialogue underline that just a in read my lip and people aren not communicate too well . it may be music be all that link them . the shortcoming of such a movie be it simplification . the crooked real estate life like the classical pianist life can be no more than impressionistically dab in . and there an occasional danger that romain duris who study piano for month with his pianist sister for the keyboard sequence may be try too hard sometimes . since tom also love electro which he listen to with big headphone in his car a the word be duris himself do classical music maybe doesn not grab the film as wholeheartedly a it ought to . you can not expect profundity but from the sound of finger and this be more accomplished film making . it may not have as much conviction and but this be wildly entertaining . and more than that and it a movie where everything come together and scenario and actor and edit . audiard and who show u dark secret place last time and now reveal himself a virtuoso of violence and passion .