You know the feeling. When you first see your crush and your head starts spinning, your palms get sweaty, and your heart begins beating a mile a minute. Is this love? Or is it … an arrhythmia? The ...

Luc Jacquet‘s doc “March of the Penguins” preyed on the specialty box office once again in its second weekend in theaters, scoring the premier position on the iW BOT, ranked on a per screen basis, ...

Given France’s intense (and often annoying) national pride, the idea of a French filmmaker remaking an American movie must give Parisian cineastes heart palpitations. Flirting with cultural treason, ...

Jacques Audiard’s The Beat That My Heart Skipped creates edge-of-the-seat psychological tension in a shadowy Paris. When it was over, I overheard a woman complaining to her companion, “Why can’t ...

In his previous film, Read My Lips (Sur Mes Levres), of 2001, the director Jacques Audiard presented us with a Sartrean hymn to criminality as the route to personal authenticity and moral and ...

Fingers, James Toback’s 1978 debut feature about a second-generation gangster who plays classical piano, was described by Dave Kehr as “dauntingly personal filmmaking, full of strange, suggestive ...

Duris plays Tom, a wiry tough guy with a perpetually furrowed brow and knotted fists. His father Robert (Neils Arestrup) has him in an apprenticeship of shakedowns and crooked deals until Tom chances ...

Tom is 25 and seems to be following in the tracks of his father, a corrupted real estate agent. But an unexpected encounter brings him to think he could really be the talented solo pianist he always ...