Style wins out over content in this delectable low-key French thriller by director Denis Dercourt...
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04/26/09
The Page Turner (2007)
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Reviews Counted: 63
Fresh: 49
Rotten:14
Average Rating: 6.9/10
Consensus: Reminiscent of Hitchcock and Chabrol, The Page Turner is elegant yet suspenseful, a revenge potboiler of a high degree.
Theatrical Release:Mar 23, 2007 Limited
Synopsis: A small-town butcher's daughter, Mélanie, aged about ten, seems to have a special gift for the piano. She takes the Conservatory entrance exam, but fails after being distracted by the thoughtless... [More]
Starring: Catherine Frot, Deborah Francois, Pascal Greggory, Clotilde Mollet
Director: Denis Dercourt
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04/23/09
This clever thriller certainly knows its Chabrol and its music.
07/03/08
With gentle plotting the intensity builds and builds until it all boils over.
03/08/08
This must be what a French movie-of-the-week look like, deemed art here because of the subtitles.
12/07/07
Top CriticSneaky and altogether pleasing, if undeniably derivative.
09/20/07
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.
07/22/07
A tautly crafted but deeply misogynistic and anti-workingclass French psychological thriller.
07/07/07
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.
07/02/07
Deliciously chilling.
06/23/07
In the movies, there’s nothing quite as sinister as the antagonist who’s willing to wait for her revenge.
06/02/07
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.
05/31/07
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05/26/07
Director Denis Dercourt proves there are still unexpected twists to be found on the well-traveled road of the revenge mystery.
05/22/07
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05/12/07
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.
05/11/07
Top Criticthis 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.
05/07/07
There is an undercurrent of tension throughout this riveting tale of revenge, made all the more effective by the subtlety and restraint used by French writer/director Denis Dercourt
05/05/07
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.
05/03/07
Top Critic...the chilly atmosphere of carefully plotted revenge is the movie's main drawback as well as its chief appeal.
04/27/07
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