Beating Hearts main backdrop
Beating Hearts main poster

Beating Hearts

Visit website

7.2/10 • 867

2024-10-162h 46m

RomanceCrimeDrama

Local rebellious teenager Clotaire falls for his schoolmate Jackie, but gang violence leads him to a darker destructive path. After years apart, the star-crossed lovers discover that every path they've taken leads them back together.

Directors
Gilles Lellouche
Editors
Simon Jacquet

Top Billed Cast

View Credits
  1. Adèle Exarchopoulos

    Adèle Exarchopoulos

    Jackie

  2. François Civil

    François Civil

    Clotaire

  3. Mallory Wanecque

    Mallory Wanecque

    Jackie (15 ans)

  4. Malik Frikah

    Malik Frikah

    Clotaire (17 ans)

  5. Alain Chabat

    Alain Chabat

    Le père de Jackie

  6. Benoît Poelvoorde

    Benoît Poelvoorde

    La Brosse

  7. Vincent Lacoste

    Vincent Lacoste

    Jeffrey

  8. Jean-Pascal Zadi

    Jean-Pascal Zadi

    Lionel adulte

  9. Élodie Bouchez

    Élodie Bouchez

    La mère de Clotaire

Reviews1

View Reviews
CinemaSerf Avatar

CinemaSerf

Aug 22, 2025

7/10

“Clotaire” (Malik Frikah) is the school wide boy who meets his match in the younger “Jacqueline” (Mallory Wanecque) and despite their coming from opposite sides of the tracks, they start to bond. He becomes besotted with her, but rather than buy her her favourite “The Cure” album, he pinches it for her, and that’s just the latest example of his petty criminality that ultimately ends up with him spending ten years incarcerated. When he (now François Civil) comes out of prison, he goes back to his old stomping grounds to get paid and perhaps to hook back up with her, but he finds that nothing he left behind is as it seems and with violence never far from him he knows that change is the only way he can perhaps be reconciled with a “Jackie” (now Adèle Exarchopoulos) who has had not had her own troubles to seek since he went away. She is now living with her boss “Jeffrey” (Vincent Lacoste) but fairly clearly for convenience rather than affection. Can there be a future for the childhood sweethearts? This is a tightly cast and gritty action drama that does follow quite a predictable story arc, but it also does benefit from four really quite impressive performances as it combines the throes of young love with the conflict brought by the sense of the hopeless felt by “Clotaire” as he starts to take the only path he feels is open to him. There isn’t so much dialogue with this, which I think helps, and the 1980s soundtrack also helps give us a sense of their occasion as they mature at different speeds and in wholly different ways. It’s a film that’s about characters rather than their scenario, and though I can’t say I especially enjoyed the fizzling out at the denouement, it’s a solid feature that is worth a watch.

Media

  • Beating Hearts poster
  • Beating Hearts poster
  • Beating Hearts poster
  • Beating Hearts poster
  • Beating Hearts poster
  • Beating Hearts poster
  • Beating Hearts poster
  • Beating Hearts poster
  • Beating Hearts poster

Recommendations

  • Monsieur Aznavour main backdrop

    Monsieur Aznavour

    7.3

  • A Mother's Special Love main backdrop

    A Mother's Special Love

    6.6

  • Souleymane's Story main backdrop

    Souleymane's Story

    7.5

  • Lee main backdrop

    Lee

    7.1

  • The Scammers main backdrop

    The Scammers

    5.1

  • The Divine Sarah Bernhardt main backdrop

    The Divine Sarah Bernhardt

    6.0

  • Slingshot main backdrop

    Slingshot

    6.2

  • Burn Out main backdrop

    Burn Out

    6.7

  • Three Friends main backdrop

    Three Friends

    6.6

  • Meanwhile on Earth main backdrop

    Meanwhile on Earth

    6.0

  • A Missing Part main backdrop

    A Missing Part

    6.5

  • Oh, Canada main backdrop

    Oh, Canada

    5.9

  • The Nannies main backdrop

    The Nannies

    6.4

  • Tchaikovsky's Wife main backdrop

    Tchaikovsky's Wife

    6.4

  • The Quiet Ones main backdrop

    The Quiet Ones

    6.0

  • Hard Shell, Soft Shell main backdrop

    Hard Shell, Soft Shell

    6.9

  • Amal main backdrop

    Amal

    7.7

  • Sur un fil main backdrop

    Sur un fil

    7.8

  • Mr. Morgan's Last Love main backdrop

    Mr. Morgan's Last Love

    6.6

  • Fuori main backdrop

    Fuori

    6.6

Status
Released
Original Language
French
Budget
$37,315,205.00
Revenue
$36,010,728.00
Keywords
based on novel or bookmusicalromcomnostalgicromantic