After a turbulent past of gang violence and self-destruction, Clotaire collides with his high school love, Jackie, after years apart.

The phenomenal Adèle Exarchopoulos and François Civil – arguably French cinema’s brightest young talents – devour the screen in Gilles Lellouche’s vibrant, genre-spanning romantic epic that follows a written-in-the-stars infatuation tested by social boundaries, betrayal and circumstances beyond all control.

Love makes one crazy. Just ask Clotaire (Civil) and Jackie (Exarchopoulos), who meet in their teens in their Northern France working-class neighbourhood in the 1980s. Despite their differences – she is a diligent student from the middle class, he a charming troublemaker with a complex family life – an intense and unmistakable connection is sparked.  But tragedy soon pulls them apart.

A decade later, Clotaire tries desperately to win back his lost love. Has his chance passed?

Driven by a kinetic soundtrack, indelible production design and all-star supporting cast, Beating Hearts pays homage to the US independent film wave of the 1980s and early 1990s but creates an impact truly of its own. Delivering another massive, crowd-pleasing blockbuster result at the French box office (after Sink Or Swim) with an extraordinary five million admissions, Lellouche reaches for the stars and rewards all who strap in for the ride.

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"Terrific and unexpectedly potent. A romantic opera that delivers in refreshingly unpredictable ways. Lellouche has created something special here."

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French with English Subtitles

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