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July 29, 2005
The Facts That My Mind Skipped: Ed Koch on Toback, I mean, Audiard
The 80-year-old former Mayor of New York, Ed Koch, still reviews movies: here's part of his notice for Jacques Audiard's The Beat That My Heart Skipped. "As the doors opened and the theater emptied out, I asked those departing what they thought of the film... I’m glad that I saw this picture. James Toback’s movie can be described as a French film noir. It is gritty, puzzling, unresolved, and interesting. The plot is a mélange of threads representing separate but interlocking stories. They are not directly linked like Robert Altman’s films which usually have a central, dominating theme... The film, set in Paris, is very sensual and includes the handsome and rugged-looking Tom having lots of affairs. When Tom isn’t assisting his father in the business, he spends his time practicing the piano with his Chinese tutor... who doesn’t speak any French. Tom’s ambition is to become a concert pianist as his now deceased mother had been. I liked the plot and the music and especially enjoyed the acting of all the principal figures."
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