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Released
2005 · FILM

The Beat That My Heart Skipped

A cut‑throat real‑estate broker fights to trade his criminal empire for a chance at the concert stage, but the violent world he built threatens to drown out his newfound music.

“Can music tame the raging soul?”

Directed by
Jacques Audiard
Written by
Jacques Audiard, Tonino Benacquista
Runtime
107 min
Language
FR
CrimeDramaMusic
Streaming on
  • The Criterion Channel

Synopsis

A ruthless real estate agent discovers a passion for piano and, with the help of a young virtuoso, auditions for an opportunity to pursue it. However, the pressures of his corrupt career threaten to derail his emerging musical aspirations.

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Principal cast & crew: 20

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Juliette WelflingShot by Stephane FontaineScored by Alexandre DesplatDesigned by Francois Emmanuelli

Box Office

2005 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.5× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$9.3M

Budget$6.4M
Worldwide gross$9.3M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening week (7-day): $108K

Peak 5 theaters

Also known as

  • Der wilde Schlag meines Herzensde
  • The Beat That My Heart Skippeden
  • De battre mon cœur s'est arrêtéfr
  • Tutti i battiti del mio cuoreit

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