A memorable character study about a young man torn between a life of crime and classical music. Based on the film Fingers by James Toback, starring Harvey Keitel.

Romain Duris ( L'Auberge Espagnole ), portrays 28 year-old Tom who is following in his father's footsteps as a Parisian property shark working in a sleazy and often brutal real estate milieu when a chance encounter with his late mother's music agent rekindles a desire for a musical career and hope for a better life.

Tom's miserable profession stands in bleak contrast with his dream of becoming a concert pianist. He is a man at odds with himself, his fingers employed for contradictorily aggressive and artistic purposes and Audiard constantly emphasizes the contrast between light and dark, moral and immoral, hope and resignation. The musical score, which won the Silver Bear at the last Berlin International Film Festival, plays a major part in creating the film's disturbing atmosphere.

Like in Read My Lips (which successfully opened the first Sacramento French Film Festival), Audiard has fused two unlikely worlds into a stunning vision featuring a menacing, dark and dangerous Paris rarely seen on screen.

Closing Night - Sunday 24th - 6:05pm