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The Page Turner (La Tourneuse de pages) (2006)

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Average Rating: 6.9/10
Reviews Counted: 64
Fresh: 50 | Rotten: 14

Reminiscent of Hitchcock and Chabrol, The Page Turner is elegant yet suspenseful, a revenge potboiler of a high degree.

68

Average Rating: 6.9/10
Critic Reviews: 19
Fresh: 13 | Rotten: 6

Reminiscent of Hitchcock and Chabrol, The Page Turner is elegant yet suspenseful, a revenge potboiler of a high degree.

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Years after her once-promising career as a professional pianist is tragically sidelined, a young musician still haunted by the past receives a second chance at making things right in director Denis Dercourt's elegant tale of shattered dreams and delicate mutual dependence. Upon performing for the examination board in order to gain entrance into the prestigious musical Conservatory, young pianist Mélanie (Julie Richalet) finds her concentration shattered when the chairwoman of the jury - herself

Jul 10, 2007

Tartan Films

All Critics (67) | Top Critics (19) | Fresh (51) | Rotten (15) | DVD (6)

This must be what a French movie-of-the-week look like, deemed art here because of the subtitles.

December 7, 2007 Full Review Source: Detroit Free Press | Comment
Detroit Free Press
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The serving temperature of revenge has seldom been colder, nor the time of preparation longer, than for this gourmet French plat froid from writer-director Denis Dercourt.

May 11, 2007 Full Review Source: Film.com | Comment
Film.com
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It's a small French delicacy, tart, acerbic and cynical, that focuses on three or four characters and yet manages to bring them and their dilemmas to vivid life.

May 3, 2007 Full Review Source: Washington Post | Comment
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The stakes in this story seem too low to justify its audience's attention. If The Page Turner were a novel, it would hardly be a page turner. Why should we hold films to a lower standard?

April 20, 2007 Full Review Source: Boston Globe | Comment
Boston Globe
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In retrospect it's clear that when the filmmakers had a chance to hammer something they tapped it, instead.

April 7, 2007 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Comment
San Francisco Chronicle
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[Director] Dercourt's manipulation of his characters and his imagery can be a little heavy-handed, but there's nary a wrong note in the performances of his exceedingly fine cast.

April 7, 2007 Full Review Source: Toronto Star | Comment
Toronto Star
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Style wins out over content in this delectable low-key French thriller by director Denis Dercourt...

April 26, 2009 Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com | Comment
ColeSmithey.com

This clever thriller certainly knows its Chabrol and its music.

July 3, 2008 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | Comment
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

With gentle plotting the intensity builds and builds until it all boils over.

March 8, 2008 Full Review Source: Calgary Movies | Comment
Calgary Movies

Sneaky and altogether pleasing, if undeniably derivative.

September 20, 2007 Full Review Source: Antagony & Ecstasy | Comment
Antagony & Ecstasy

If only the story could have been as involved and layered as some of the incredible music (or as good as a page-turner book), this would be a must-see.

July 22, 2007 Full Review Source: TheMovieChicks.com | Comment

A finely honed plot that effectively traps the audience in its convoluted suspense-laden web, but strains for credibility when it comes to basic logic.

July 7, 2007 Full Review | Comment
Long Island Press

A tautly crafted but deeply misogynistic and anti-workingclass French psychological thriller.

July 7, 2007 Full Review | Comment (1)
WBAI Web Radio

One of those delectable, upstairs-downstairs affairs worth savoring, and a suspenseful psychological thriller which rates right up there with the best of the genre.

July 6, 2007 Full Review Source: NewsBlaze | Comment
NewsBlaze

here the business of revenge is as measured and well-tempered as a piano score, and it will turn out that Melanie's Bach is far worse than any bite.

July 2, 2007 Full Review Source: musicOMH.com | Comment
musicOMH.com

Deliciously chilling.

June 23, 2007 Full Review Source: Jam! Movies | Comment
Jam! Movies

In the movies, there's nothing quite as sinister as the antagonist who's willing to wait for her revenge.

June 2, 2007 Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | Comment
Austin Chronicle

Dercourt washes the film in a chillingly remorseless suspense. . . . the story, as taut as a razor-sharp piano string, offers a few sly, subtle sexual knots before the final bloody note is struck.

May 31, 2007 Comment
Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)

Director Denis Dercourt proves there are still unexpected twists to be found on the well-traveled road of the revenge mystery.

May 22, 2007 Full Review Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Comment
Seattle Post-Intelligencer

this taut little film is a psychological thriller about revenge. If the Japanese horror adaptation hadn't already used the title THE GRUDGE, that might have served as a more appropriate title for this drama.

May 7, 2007 Full Review Source: Murphy's Movie Reviews | Comment
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Audience Reviews for The Page Turner (La Tourneuse de pages)

Though flawed, an effective thriller.

February 9, 2008
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Icily efficient thriller which makes its understated chills stand out. Clinically composed and beautifully scored.

June 30, 2007
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Foreign Titles

  • Das Mädchen, das die Seiten umblättert (DE)
  • The Page Turner (UK)
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