Beating Hearts
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“All these years I kept thinking of you”
Overview
Adèle Exarchopoulos (Blue Is The Warmest Colour) and François Civil (The Three Musketeers), two of French cinema’s brightest young sparks, ignite the screen in Gilles Lellouche’s (Sink Or Swim) dazzling, genre-fluid romantic epic. In the working-class suburbs of Northern France, a star-crossed, forbidden romance blossoms between the diligent student Jackie (Exarchopoulos) and the charming troublemaker Clotaire (Civil). After he winds up in prison for over a decade, Clotaire is desperate to win back his lost love but Jackie has a new life. Can these two beating hearts find each other’s rhythms against society’s tempo?
“Terrific and unexpectedly potent. A romantic banlieue opera that delivers in refreshingly unpredictable ways. Lellouche has created something special here that fully deserves every ounce of the goodwill that will surely come to it”
“Unmissable. An epic romance of incredible generosity, combining social drama, heist film, melodrama, romantic and musical comedy at the same time”
“A real cinematic pleasure. Ultra-ambitious, thrilling and full of enthusiasm”
“Gorgeous. An epic rumination on love, revenge, class, and the inescapable pull of a certain kind of romance”
Why You Should See This Film
A French box office sensation hearkening back to the electric independent cinema of the ‘90s, Beating Hearts is grand, operatic, vibrant move-making – a cinema of big swings and ambitious images made for the theatre. It’s impossible to not get caught up in everything Exarchopoulos and Civil do here, particularly as Lellouche frames them in ever-changing lenses, genres and colours, packing a punch with heightened set-pieces that remind you what large-scale filmmaking should be all about. It’s also propelled by an absolutely stellar soundtrack from one of our favourite working composers Jon Brion (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Lady Bird, Punch-Drunk Love).
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