This must be what a French movie-of-the-week look like, deemed art here because of the subtitles.
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12/07/07
The Page Turner (2007)
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Reviews Counted:19
Fresh:13
Rotten:6
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
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Top CriticThe 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 CriticIt'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 CriticThe 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?
04/20/07
Top CriticIn retrospect it's clear that when the filmmakers had a chance to hammer something they tapped it, instead.
04/07/07
Top Critic[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.
04/07/07
Top CriticThis 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 CriticThis premise may sound all right on paper, but on-screen it doesn't really wash.
03/30/07
Top CriticAn impeccably made psychological melodrama. It's a story of destruction, dependence and betrayal set not only in the world of classical music but in the French culture of politeness where form and decorum are everything.
03/29/07
Top CriticA classical music thriller.
03/29/07
Top CriticThe characters are sophisticated. The subtexts involve class and snobbery and sex. The mood is uncomfortably chill.
03/23/07
Top CriticElegant and subtle.
03/23/07
Top CriticDirector and co-writer Denis Dercourt infuses Melanie's calculating seduction of the family with a sense of genuine menace. You will not be bored.
03/23/07
Top CriticThe Page Turner is finally ersatz Chabrol, absent the master's perverse wit, complex psychology, social sensitivities and visual flair.
03/23/07
Top CriticThe schematic requirements of the setup, combined with the tight-lipped demeanor of the two lead characters, makes for arid moviegoing. Eighty-five minutes can seem much longer than it really is when you spend the entire time waiting for a shoe to drop.
03/22/07
Top CriticA 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 CriticThe movie saves the full strength of her toxicity for a kicker that's almost gleeful in its sangfroid; Dercourt's parting coup de grâce is like getting shanked with an icicle.
03/20/07
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 CriticA tight little emotional thriller about a music lover who becomes a musician-hater.
05/20/06
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