Heartbeat Detector (2007)

Highly Recommended

France

Feature Film

Original Title: La question humaine

Director: Nicolas Klotz

Writers: François Emmanuel, Elisabeth Perceval

Cinematographer: Josée Deshaies

Composer: Syd Matters

Cast: Mathieu Amalric, Michael Lonsdale, Edith Scob, Lou Castel, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Valérie Dréville, Laetitia Spigarelli, Delphine Chuillot, Nicolas Maury, Rémy Carpentier

Klotz’s remarkable film – a sensual, disquieting, and haunting meditation on the dehumanising effects of modern, corporate language, and its Nazi party echoes – follows a human resources corporate psychologist as he investigates, at the behest of a board member, the mental health of his company’s chief director, who has been acting decidedly erratically of late. Iain.Stott