Jacques Audiard (Read My Lips) has updated James Toback's cult 1978 film Fingers to come up with a gripping modern noir about a young man torn between a life of crime and classical music. Romain Duris (L'Auberge Espagnole) portrays 28-year-old Tom, who seems destined to follow in his father's footsteps as a Parisian property shark. But a chance encounter with his late mother's music agent leads him to believe that he can become a concert pianist. In earnest, he starts preparing for the audition with the help of a beautiful, young virtuoso pianist who has just arrived from China. But pressures from the ugly world of his day job soon become more than he can handle.... (Fully subtitled)
Cast: Romain Duris, Aure Atika, Emmanuelle Devos, Niels Arestrup, Jonathan Zaccaï, Linh Dan Pham, Mélanie Laurent, Gilles Cohen, Anton Yakovlev
Run Time: 1hr 47mins
Release Year: 2005
Country Of Origin: France
Jacques Audiard (Read My Lips) has updated James Toback's cult 1978 film Fingers to come up with a gripping modern noir about a young man torn between a life of crime and classical music. Romain Duris (L'Auberge Espagnole) portrays 28-year-old Tom, who seems destined to follow in his father's footsteps as a Parisian property shark. But a chance encounter with his late mother's music agent leads him to believe that he can become a concert pianist. In earnest, he starts preparing for the audition with the help of a beautiful, young virtuoso pianist who has just arrived from China. But pressures from the ugly world of his day job soon become more than he can handle.... (Fully subtitled)
Cast: Romain Duris, Aure Atika, Emmanuelle Devos, Niels Arestrup, Jonathan Zaccaï, Linh Dan Pham, Mélanie Laurent, Gilles Cohen, Anton Yakovlev
Run Time: 1hr 47mins
Release Year: 2005
Country Of Origin: France
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