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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.

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 85 mins

Genre: Foreign Films

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... 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 behaviour of the chairwoman of the jury, a well known concert pianist. Bitterly disappointed, Mélanie gives up the piano. Some ten years later, while working as an intern with a law firm, Mélanie meets Monsieur Fouchécourt, the husband of the woman who changed her life without a doubt. Mélanie's efficiency and devotion are quickly noticed and Monsieur Fouchécourt recruits her into his home to look after his son. Madame Fouchécourt soon warms to Mélanie when her musical sensitivity comes out, and the young woman becomes her page turner... -- © Tartan Films [More]

Starring: Catherine Frot, Deborah Francois, Pascal Greggory, Clotilde Mollet

Starring: Catherine Frot, Deborah Francois, Pascal Greggory, Clotilde Mollet, Xavier De Guillebon

Director: Denis Dercourt

Director: Denis Dercourt
Screenwriter: Denis Dercourt, Jacques Sotty
Producer: Michel Saint-Jean
Composer: Jerome Lemonnier

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Style wins out over content in this delectable low-key French thriller by director Denis Dercourt...

Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com | comment Comment
04/26/09
Cole Smithey
Cole Smithey
ColeSmithey.com
N/R

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Full Review Source: Boston Phoenix | comment Comment
04/23/09
Peter Keough
Peter Keough
Boston Phoenix

This clever thriller certainly knows its Chabrol and its music.

Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | comment Comment
07/03/08
Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

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

Full Review Source: Calgary Movies | comment Comment
03/08/08
Ryan Cracknell
Ryan Cracknell
Calgary Movies

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

Full Review Source: Detroit Free Press | comment Comment
12/07/07
John Monaghan
John Monaghan
Detroit Free Press
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Sneaky and altogether pleasing, if undeniably derivative.

Full Review Source: Antagony & Ecstasy | comment Comment
09/20/07
Tim Brayton
Tim Brayton
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.

Full Review Source: TheMovieChicks.com | comment Comment
07/22/07
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
TheMovieChicks.com

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

Full Review Source: WBAI Web Radio | comment 1 Comment
07/07/07
Prairie Miller
Prairie Miller
WBAI Web Radio

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.

Full Review Source: musicOMH.com | comment Comment
07/02/07
Anton Bitel
Anton Bitel
musicOMH.com

Deliciously chilling.

Full Review Source: Jam! Movies | comment Comment
06/23/07
Bruce Kirkland
Bruce Kirkland
Jam! Movies

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

Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | comment Comment
06/02/07
Josh Rosenblatt
Josh Rosenblatt
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.

Full Review Source: Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada) | comment Comment
05/31/07
Brian Gibson
Brian Gibson
Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)

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05/26/07
Los Angeles Daily News

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

Full Review Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | comment Comment
05/22/07
Bill White
Bill White
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
N/R

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05/12/07
Sydney Morning Herald

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.

Full Review Source: Film.com | comment Comment
05/11/07
Jonathan F. Richards
Jonathan F. Richards
Film.com
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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.

Full Review Source: Murphy's Movie Reviews | comment Comment
05/07/07
Ted Murphy
Ted Murphy
Murphy's Movie Reviews

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

Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | comment Comment
05/05/07
Urban Cinefile Critics
Urban Cinefile Critics
Urban Cinefile

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.

Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
05/03/07
Stephen Hunter
Stephen Hunter
Washington Post
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...the chilly atmosphere of carefully plotted revenge is the movie's main drawback as well as its chief appeal.

Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review | comment Comment
04/27/07
Jim Lane
Jim Lane
Sacramento News & Review
 
 
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