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...
