Heartbeat Detector is an immersive corporate thriller in which Mathieu Amalric (The Diving Bell And The Butterfly, Quantum Of Solace) plays Simon Kessler, an in-house corporate psychologist, who is asked to investigate the erratic behaviour of the company CEO (Michael Lonsdale). His investigations take him under the skin of .. Read more
| Starring | Mathieu Amalric, Michael Lonsdale, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Laetitia Spigarelli |
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| Director | Nicolas Klotz |
| Genres | Drama, World Cinema |
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Heartbeat Detector is an immersive corporate thriller in which Mathieu Amalric (The Diving Bell And The Butterfly, Quantum Of Solace) plays Simon Kessler, an in-house corporate psychologist, who is asked to investigate the erratic behaviour of the company CEO (Michael Lonsdale). His investigations take him under the skin of his company, and its neutral corporate language, to dark, Cache-style transgressions.
| Starring | Mathieu Amalric, Michael Lonsdale, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Laetitia Spigarelli, Valérie Dreville, Valérie Dréville, Delphine Chuillot, Lou Castel, Edith Scob, Nicolas Maury, Rémy Carpentier |
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| Director | Nicolas Klotz |
| Studio | TRINITY FILMED ENTERTAINMENT LTD. |
| Run time | DVD: 2 hrs 21 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama, World Cinema |
| Language | DVD: French |
| Subtitles | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 06 Oct 2008 Production year: 2008 |
| Format | DVD |
Simon (Mathieu Amalric) has been working more-or-less happily for seven years as a psychologist in the Paris subsidiary... read more on Time Out
This slow movie's main theme is the correspondence between today's corporate attitude towards employees and the Nazi's towards Jews. Both considered these people as 'things', to be eliminated, or manipulated, as such. Similarly both use euphemisms to gloss over atrocious acts.Despite some excellent acting and character creation the film verges on the unwatchable through the vastly longdrawn out nature of three episodes, which produce boredom and irrititation to a degree that actual walking out of the cinema is almost invited
(some did when I saw it). None of the professional critics that I read mentioned this evidence of a badly made film and most gave it a rave four stars. I agree completely with our viewers average rating of two and a half stars.
Only watched 5 mins of it. That speaks for itself.