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The Beat That My Heart Skippedby George Sax |
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(Wellspring, $24.99)
A French remake by Jacques Audiard (Read My Lips) of James Toback’s totemic 1978 debut Fingers, which starred Harvey Keitel as a low-level mob enforcer and aspiring classical pianist. Lacking the personal obsessions that Toback was working out, Audiard has reimagined the material skillfully and persuasively. The character and situations are still narrative conceits, but it’s less brutal and more emotionally consistent, with a subdued but increasingly effective moral dynamic. It’s derived from a crime melodrama tradition, but it reaches beyond its origins for emotional effects that are beyond generic conventions.
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