de battre mon coeur sest arrêté ( 2005 ) . aka the beat that my heart skip write or direct by jaques audiard be a french remake of james toback cult movie finger ( 1978 ) with harvey keitel . the film tell the story of a young man thomas ( romain duris ) who be tear by two different side of his personality one dream of become a virtuoso piano player and the other a ruthless debt collector and enforcer . i think that duris be the one of the best performance of last year so convincing he be a a man who walk on the edge of two reality . the best moment of the film be the one between thomas and his piano tutor and the girl whom he hire to prepare himself for an audition that be offer to him by a man who have be the manager of thomas late mother and the talented concerto pianist . the man remember thomas who have inherit his mother talent and use to study piano seriously until his mother die when he be 18 and he join his father in the real estate and debt collecting business . the tutor and a young pianist from china who arrive to paris recently and do not speak any french and thomas do not speak any chinese so they have to relay to music to understand one another . the film be not perfect and and i be not too fond of director jaques audiard frequent and abrupt cut of the scene but it be superbly act and energetic and and well write .