An extremely unusual gangster film will come to Germany next week and no, it is not The Alto Knights with the double Robert de Niro. Rather, the French epic Beating Hearts is meant, in which Romeo and Julia, gang massacre, 80s pop and musical numbers are mixed into a wild love story.
That’s what the wild mix of gangster and love film is about
In the heart of Beating Hearts there are Clotaire (François Civil) and Jackie (Adèle Exarchopoulos), two young people from different living environments In the middle of gang violence and social conflicts, fall in love with each other. As a teenager, they get to know each other in the 1980s. She has just been thrown out of her Catholic private school, he moves to crime on the edge.
Take a look at the trailer for Beating Hearts:
Beating Hearts – Trailer (German) HD
Like Romeo and Julia, both are attracted to each other about all (class) differences, but they are repeatedly separated from their decisions and mistakes. The love story spanned for 20 years into Beating Hearts, which comes as a nostalgic genre mix with numerous unusual staging incidents.
More about the film:
The new film by director Gilles Lellouche caused a stir at the Festival in Cannes last year, but collected mixed reviews. Then he received a shorter cutting version, which in France Kino hit with 5 million visitors Mouseed.
At our college: Inside Filmstarts, editor -in -chief Christoph Petersen wrote about Beating Hearts:
A wild heart of a film. One Epic love story from schoolyard swarms to gang massacrethat not only really bang in because of the hammer soundtrack.
Beating Hearts starts on March 27th in the German cinemas.