Subtle and precise, Dercourt’s fifth feature boasts beguiling echoes of past vengeance tales by Chabrol and Clouzot.
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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.
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
Denis Dercourt’s stylish, subtle and highly assured film is a pleasingly suspenseful psychological drama in the style of Hitchcock or early Chabrol.
11/02/06
A film of impeccable style, with every note hit to perfection, but without much soul.
04/16/07
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 meticulously controlled piece from which every ounce of fat has been trimmed.
11/04/06
Sneaky and altogether pleasing, if undeniably derivative.
09/20/07
An elegantly constructed and acted French film about revenge and what is lost in the act of bringing others down.
03/23/07
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
Top CriticDrained bourgeois chill is so 2001.
03/22/07
More than earns its presumptuous double entendre of a title.
09/03/06
The Page Turner is a good, though not great, thriller that does not as much surprise as it does satisfy with its outcome.
04/19/07
...a quietly effective thriller right out of the Claude Chabrol catalog.
04/17/07
With gentle plotting the intensity builds and builds until it all boils over.
03/08/08
The Page Turner is finally ersatz Chabrol, absent the master's perverse wit, complex psychology, social sensitivities and visual flair.
03/23/07
Top CriticPleasingly reminiscent of Claude Chabrol's perverse thrillers.
11/11/06
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
Quietly suspenseful.
03/17/07
There's little recognition of the difference between simmering suspense and sluggish pacing, a sure kiss of death for a thriller.
03/24/07
Dercourt, a professional violist himself, clearly understands the obsessive personality that often lies behind the profession's facade of great musicians who must compete in a field where nothing but perfection will do.
03/23/07
A devastating, subtly reticent thriller that matches Hitchcock twist by twist.
01/20/07
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