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Heartbeat Detector (2008)

Reviewed by Lisa Schwarzbaum | Mar 12, 2008

Lisa Schwarzbaum

Lisa Schwarzbaum is a film critic for EW

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EW's GRADE

A-

Details Limited Release: Mar 14, 2008; Rated: Unrated; Length: 141 Minutes; Genre: Drama; With: Michael Lonsdale and Mathieu Amalric

GRAVE AT THE OFFICE Mathieu Amalric (pictured, with Laetitia Spigarelli) is a corporate shrink in Heartbeat Detector, a workplace psychological thriller

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It's a thin line between 20th-century Nazism and 21st-century corporate culture in Heartbeat Detector, Nicolas Klotz's rewardingly chilly psychological thriller. Mathieu Amalric (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) plays a staff shrink at the Paris branch of a giant German-owned company, investigating the unstable behavior of a company director (Michael Lonsdale). And the two Munich costars generate fine, underplayed tension. Klotz shoots in a palette of grays, then adds Schubert and techno for effective musical disorientation. A-

Originally posted Mar 12, 2008 Published in issue #983 Mar 21, 2008 Order article reprints

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