From French director Jacques Audiard comes this update of James Toback’s 1978 classic Fingers. Romain Duris stars as a sleazy Paris real-estate shark who dreams of a new life as a concert pianist. Niels Arestrup costars. (107 min, R)

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This article appears in Nov 23-29, 2005.