"The Beat That My Heart Skipped" is a cocky French remake of James Toback's 1978 "Fingers" that stands reasonably well on its own as an urgent, updated genre meditation on nurture vs. nature. Jacques ...

PARIS — A bemused-looking Jacques Audiard has just gotten off the telephone with James Toback. The rail-thin Parisian and super-sized New Yorker have been talking film — specifically, Audiard’s new ...

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, ...

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 ...

Tom Seyr (Romain Duris), a violent thug with a heart, grows weary of cracking heads for his smarmy, mediocre gangster father, Robert (Niels Arestrup), and longs for a chance at something else. A ...

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 ...