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
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Style wins out over content in this delectable low-key French thriller by director Denis Dercourt... Full Review |
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This clever thriller certainly knows its Chabrol and its music. Full Review |
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With gentle plotting the intensity builds and builds until it all boils over. Full Review |
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This must be what a French movie-of-the-week look like, deemed art here because of the subtitles. Full Review |
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7/10 |
Sneaky and altogether pleasing, if undeniably derivative. Full Review |
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3/5 |
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 |
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A tautly crafted but deeply misogynistic and anti-workingclass French psychological thriller. Full Review |
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4/5 |
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 |
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4/5 |
Deliciously chilling. Full Review |
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3/5 |
In the movies, there’s nothing quite as sinister as the antagonist who’s willing to wait for her revenge. Full Review |
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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 |
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B |
Director Denis Dercourt proves there are still unexpected twists to be found on the well-traveled road of the revenge mystery. Full Review |
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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 |
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B+ |
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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