2024 · romance · crime · drama
Beating Hearts
Directed by Gilles Lellouche2h 40m2024
Local rebellious teenager Clotaire falls for his schoolmate Jackie, but gang violence leads him to a darker destructive path. After years apart, the star-crossed lovers discover that every path they've taken leads them back together.
Our read: Beating Hearts (2024) reads as a neutral, steady, grounded romance · crime · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, steady, measured romance / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender.
- intense
- tender
- twisty
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