Beating Heart (1940)

Original title

Battement de cœur

Directed by

Henri Decoin

Genre

comedy film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 37m

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 23 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A young woman gets involved in a case of mistaken identity and falls into a romantic adventure. It is a French comedy about a person who pretends to be someone else.

lightheartedwhimsicalbreezyplayfulcharmingromanticfast-paced

What happens

Beating Heart (French: Battement de coeur) is a 1940 French comedy film directed by Henri Decoin and starring Danielle Darrieux, Claude Dauphin and André Luguet. It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris. The film' sets were designed by the art directors Léon Barsacq and Jean Perrier. It was inspired by the 1939 Italian film Heartbeat. The film was remade in Hollywood as Heartbeat in 1946 starring Ginger Rogers and Basil Rathbone. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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