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The Page Turner [2006]
from Artificial Eye
starring Catherine Frot, Deborah Francois, Pascal Greggory, Xavier De Guillebon, Clotilde Mollet
directed by Denis Dercourt

Features:

• Anamorphic
• PAL

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• Un film riduculous!
  As a child, Melanie's piano recital is rudely interrupted, causing her to get "le hump" so badly, she locks the piano lid for good.
  Revenge being a dish best served cold (or luke-warm in this case) she waits years until she has blossomed from a very plain and pasty-looking child, into a surprisingly attractive young woman (the only recognisable similarity being the blank expression and peculiar Stepford wife gait) to worm her way into the life of the concert pianist who wrecked her future career and... more info

• Thank heavens that this isn't American
  After having watched many many American films, we've decided to try French films and this is really good. There is just 1 slightly gory scene, we were hooked right from the word go, whereas quite often it takes a while to understand the characters.
  Just the right length, slightly peters out at the end but her revenge was just right.
  The americans would have killed the chicken, done something beyond repair to the son, if you watch this you will understand!

• Slight but Delicious French Psychological Drama
  Concert pianist Ariane Foucherot(Catherine Frot)unknowingly slights a young girl mid recital who is unable to regain her composure and fails the examination.Years later Melanie(Deborah Francois)the girl all grown up insinuates herself into the pianist's life in order to exact revenge.
  Director Darcourt ratchets up the chills as he plays the ice cold Melanie off against the angst ridden and vulnerable Ariane.His constant use of close up nicely accentuates the relentless and subtle nature of Melanie's... more info

• Disappointing
  Unintentionally hilarious at times*, The Page Turner is a bog standard vengeful-nutter-infiltrates-family thriller in which the nutter changes her blank expression no more than once. Gushing reviewers should watch more Hollywood films to see how it's done.
  (*The funniest sequence has to be the evil plot to turn up the son's metronome so he plays piano too fast and injures himself.)

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