"The Beat That My Heart Skipped," Jacques Audiard's excellent remake of James Toback's "Fingers," about a criminal's attempt to sooth his inner beast with classical music, hits theaters this weekend. The film got great buzz at this year's Tribeca Film Festival and is a favorite around the indieWIRE office. Liza Bear interviews Jacques Audiard in today's indieWIRE, where he dismisses the notion of his film as simply a "remake" and how it is a "much deeper exchange," a communication between directors that accounts for the way cinema has developed. Manohla Dargis also praises the film in the New York Times, noting its "beautiful images, strong emotions and the joy found watching a movie aimed straight at the heart and head."

