Heartbeat Detector | Dir. Nikolas Klotz | France
This film is a truly exhilarating cinematic experience. I watched this film on a cold, wet, miserable April evening and left the theatre high as a kite. It’s long, gruelling, hard to watch and worth every minute. As a viewer you are challenged on a visual, intellectual and emotional level.
The story follows a company psychologist (Mathieu Amarlric- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) who is instructed to investigate the erratic behaviour of the company CEO (Michael Lonsdale). The subsequent investigation condemns the language of business whilst also exploring painful truths of past. You can find out more about various plot points from other reviews, but I don’t want to give anything away. I knew nothing about the film going in and was blown away.
With an austere, static, style and natural, realistic, unnerving and unhinged performances from Mathieu Amalric and Michael Lonsdale, Heartbeat detector is an emotive, breath taking cinematic experience that left me emotionally drained and wholly elated. Emotive cinema at its very best, this is real cinema. (review by: Ben Metcalf)
London Opening Venues:
- Curzon Soho (Q&A with director May 16th, 18:10, see Curzon site for info)
- The Gate (Nottinghill)
- The Ritzy
- Cine Lumiere
(We’d also like to give a special nod to La Antena also out today and screening at the ICA)
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