Reworking Toback’s “Fingers,” Jacques Audiard On “The Beat”

For his latest film, " The Beat My Heart Skipped ," opening today, Jacques Audiard teams up again with Tonino Benaquista , co- screenwriter of Audiard's well-received " Read My Lips ." The Audiard remake of James Toback 's 1978 indie flick " Fingers " brilliantly transposes the mafia setting of the original to the world of Parisian real estate slumlords, every bit as rapacious and ruthless as ...