There are Lots of remakes of artsy European films, but this is an exception—a new take on the 1978 James Toback noir, Fingers. The French film doesn't have the same intensity as the original, but it explores enough new ground to be worth a viewing. Tom Seyr (Romain Duris) cheaply buys buildings by practices like scaring off residents with bags of rats. But his mother, a concert pianist, exposed him to another world, and Tom's overwhelming desire to lose himself in music comes into conflict with his thug life. While Duris doesn't convey the decline into madness in quite the way that made Harvey Keitel's original performance so unforgettable, he does make a sympathetic tragic hero.