The Page Turner

Name: The Page Turner
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Music
Released: March 23, 2007
Duration: 85 min
Rating: 67

2007

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Palisades Pictures | Release Date: March 23, 2007

Summary: When a ten-year-old girl fails the Conservatory entrance exam, she gives up on the piano. Ten years later she encounters the woman who she believes ruined her career and patiently waits for revenge.

Director: Denis Dercourt

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller, Music

Runtime: 85 min

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Ken Fox

The film flows like a sinister and unsettling piece of music, from gripping overture to the tightly orchestrated movements to the unforgettable coda. Read full review

Noel Murray

A little too neat, and self-consciously vague at the end. But it's fascinating to observe and try to interpret François' mysterious smile as she eyes her boss. Read full review

Michael Wilmington

Dercourt, a very fine filmmaker, is a musician himself, a music teacher and one-time solo viola player with the French Symphony Orchestra. And he directs, with a musician's precision and an insider's sly wit, the world of classical music performance. Read full review

Kenneth Turan

Though this film is as formal and predetermined as a carved palace of ice, it builds interest through the strong performances of its pair of costars, the veteran Catherine Frot and relative newcomer Deborah Francois. Read full review

Josh Rosenblatt

A revenge fantasy fit for a Seventies arthouse theatre: There are no knives or armies of kung-fu acrobats, no torture scenes involving rusty pliers; there's only a creeping malevolence quietly wreaking havoc on an otherwise normal bourgeois family. Read full review

Michael Hardy

The 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? Read full review

Ella Taylor

Though The Page Turner clearly aims for ambiguity of meaning, you'd have to be blind, or deaf to the strenuously long-faced score, to miss the signs and portents that keep piling up in this dispiritingly transparent movie, which brandishes its foregone conclusion 20 minutes in. Read full review

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