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My Heart Skipped

By Jurgen Fauth & Marcy Dermansky, About.com

Starring:

Romain Duris (L’Auberge Espagnole, Le Divorce)

Directed by:

Jacques Audiard (Read My Lips)

Distributor:

Wellspring

Release Date:

July 1, 2005

U.S. Premiere:

2005 Tribecca Film Festival
Romain Duris (L’Auberge Espagnole, Le Divorce), in a stand-out performance, portrays 28-year-old Tom, who seems destined to follow in his father’s footsteps as a Parisian property shark, a sleazy and sometimes brutal milieu. But a chance encounter with his late mother’s music agent leads him to believe that he can become, like his mother, a concert pianist. In earnest, he starts preparing for the audition with a beautiful, young virtuoso pianist who has just arrived from China. She doesn't speak a word of French; music is their only exchange. But pressures from the ugly world of his day job soon become more than he can handle...

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