with the huge success of his a prophet a last year become this and it worth a detour through jacques audiard back catalogue . the cryptically title the beat my heart skip concern come of the same theme that make a prophet a tense and epic cinematic tale . romain duris be a temperamental young wheeler dealer in parisian real estate and fluent and if not happy with the murky aspect of his trade . serendipity produce a remarkable plot diversion represent offer an audition by a former piano teacher and he begin lesson with a chinese girl who speak no french and and find the process emancipate him from the tawdriness of his day to day . naturally the drama build a the civilise effect of his extracurricular pursuit and that very job come into conflict . i like the way in which audiard manage this though . i also like the way in which he deal with the pianism within the film . this be a notoriously tricky area and introduce music or sport and event which have their own inherent drama . the non francophone teacher be a brilliant conceit in this respect since we do not understand the chinese ( non subtitle ) the drama move from dialogue about the piano to the physicality of the exchange between the character . of course and so much more revolves about this like el djebena and much of the drama come from expect thomas to drop one of the many ball he juggle woman and provide alibi for adulterous friend and the fractious relationship with his passée thug father . a nice selection of support role and from the wonderful niels arestrup a say dead beat papa to the echt parisian beauty aure atika a aline maintain the verisimilitude easily enough . this be duris picture though . he perform with such a convincing equivocation that there be no second guess the script and we feel sympathy even in his foolhardiness and violence . a very good and if ( also characteristically ) rather pessimistic film . positive .