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Heartbeat Detector [2007]
from Trinity Films
starring Mathieu Amalric, Michael Londsdale
directed by Nicolas Klotz

Features:

• PAL

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• Heartbeat Detector
  This film is riveting and utterly engrossing. Upcoming Bond baddie Matthieu Amalric (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) gets a film to himself here - already a reason to watch - and the film that he gets is a chilling, provocative look at corporate life that will make you think twice about putting on your suit to go into the office again. The way that Nazi Germany creeps into the picture is terrifying. A staggering piece of cinema.

• Earnest moral judgments don't make up for a lack of dramatic tension. But Michael Lonsdale is fine
  Here's a movie with a serious theme, undone by the earnestness of the director and writer. We know how serious the theme is because it involves Nazi death camps, and not just as a reminder of what humans are capable of, but as an odd metaphor for humanity's current business conditions.
  "Did you know," says one character, "we don't have poor people anymore? Only people on modest incomes. We no longer talk of "issues," such as social issues, but "problems" that our specialists split up into a series of... more info

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