(Get the picture?).

Instead, he goes ahead with the mission, instructing his brother Kiki to stay in the car.

Kiki disobeys and pays with his life: the enemy is waiting for them, and a massacre ensues.

Francois Civil in ‘Beating Hearts’

Francois Civil in ‘Beating Hearts’Tresor Films

Taking a leaf from Tarantinos revisionist-history handbook, Lellouche winds back ten years.

This Benedick and Beatrice routine continues until a school prom, where Clotaire fights off three attackers.

So begins an unlikely love affair.

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Jacky commits to her studies, but Clotaire thinks that education is for dipshits with no imagination.

Clotaire takes the fall, expecting some reward for his silence.

Will they get back together?

And should they, given the artfully directed bloodbath we saw at the beginning?

Jeffrey likes things orderly, but Jacky does not.

Its chaos in my head, she says.

I like things unresolved.