A tautly crafted but deeply misogynistic and anti-workingclass French psychological thriller.
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07/07/07
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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Reviews for The Page Turner
This film, like Melanie in her fitted suit and straight, blond ponytail, is a taut little affair, clocking in at a no-nonsense 85 minutes. She gets in, gets out, her work is done, much like her long-ago audition.
03/30/07
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05/26/07
A fine example of the excellence of French genre film right now: A dark tale of revenge with an inscrutable heart, ice in its veins and an electric undercurrent of eroticism, it also might be the best-photographed picture I've seen so far this year.
03/22/07
Top CriticI find myself more responsive to the malignancy in The Page Turner than in all the other recent, all too numerous excursions into the darker side of human nature. Call me inconsistent if you wish, but do see The Page Turner.
03/14/07
Top Critic... a terse, effective thriller that maintains a slow boil throughout ...
03/29/07
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
A film of impeccable style, with every note hit to perfection, but without much soul.
04/16/07
More than earns its presumptuous double entendre of a title.
09/03/06
Director Denis Dercourt proves there are still unexpected twists to be found on the well-traveled road of the revenge mystery.
05/22/07
Quietly suspenseful.
03/17/07
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
Deliciously chilling.
06/23/07
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
Drained bourgeois chill is so 2001.
03/22/07
At less than 80 minutes, not counting credits, the French The Page Turner is a brisk, thrillingly nasty little piece of work.
04/12/07
Style wins out over content in this delectable low-key French thriller by director Denis Dercourt...
04/26/09
There's little recognition of the difference between simmering suspense and sluggish pacing, a sure kiss of death for a thriller.
03/24/07
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