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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
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.
The characters are sophisticated. The subtexts involve class and snobbery and sex. The mood is uncomfortably chill.
Top CriticElegant and subtle.
Director and co-writer Denis Dercourt infuses Melanie's calculating seduction of the family with a sense of genuine menace. You will not be bored.
Top CriticDercourt’s subtle waiting game holds surprises for even the most seasoned fan of revenge thrillers.
Director/co-screenwriter Denis Dercourt...brings a detailed authenticity to this tight, spare psychological melodrama which will have you totally engrossed.
The Page Turner is finally ersatz Chabrol, absent the master's perverse wit, complex psychology, social sensitivities and visual flair.
Drained bourgeois chill is so 2001.
The 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.
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.
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.
Top CriticThis quiet eighty-five-minute revenge suspenser dances to the essentials of music in cadence, pauses, tension balanced against relaxation.
Quietly suspenseful.
I've seen Claude Chabrol's films, and Denis Dercourt's The Page Turner is no Merci Pour Le Chocolat.
I 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.
Top CriticA suspenseful French drama with a Hitchcockian flair for manipulation that manages to be simultaneously elegant and shamelessly entertaining.
A taut, Hitchcockian page-turner.
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A devastating, subtly reticent thriller that matches Hitchcock twist by twist.
Stylish psychological thriller recalls movies of the genre's masters--Hitchcock, Chabrol, De Palma--yet stands on its own merits as satisfying and coherent, beautifully acted by Francois (L'Enfant) whose performance is as measured and subtle as the film
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