Claudio Carvalho The girl Mélanie Prouvost (Déborah François) is the beloved daughter of the butchers Mrs. Prouvost (Christine Citti) and Mr. Prouvost (Jacques Bonnaffé). She is an aspirant pianist and her parents make her application to the Conservatory. During the entrance exam, she begins with a great performance but she is distracted by one member of the admittance board, Ariane (Catherine Frot), who is giving an autograph, and she fails.Years later, Mélanie is a teenager that has just finished high-school and she is accepted as intern of the law firm owned by the prominent lawyer Mr. Fouchécourt (Pascal Greggory). Mélanie overhears that he needs someone to take care of his son Tristan (Antoine Martynciow) and she offers to the position. She needs to travel to another town and when she arrives at the manor, she is welcomed by Ariane, who is the wife of Mr. Fouchécourt. She does not recognize Mélanie and soon she becomes Ariane's page turner, in the beginning of her carefully planned revenge against the woman that destroyed her dreams."La tourneuse de pages", a.k.a. "The Page Turner", is a stylish thriller of passion, seduction and revenge. This is almost a perfect movie, with great direction, screenplay and cast. The music score with classics is another attraction of this wonderful movie. My vote is eight.Title (Brazil): Not Available

Sindre Kaspersen French screenwriter and director Denis Dercourt's fifth feature film which he co-wrote with French screenwriter Jacques Sotty, premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the 59th Cannes International Film Festival in 2006, was screened in the Official selection at the 31st Toronto International Film Festival in 2006, was shot on location in France and is a French production which was produced by producer Michel Saint-Jean. It tells the story about a talented pianist named Mélanie Prouvost who lives in France with her parents. Mélanie has been preparing for an upcoming audition for a long time, but when the time has come to perform in front of a panel of judges, a woman interrupts the session to get an autograph and Mélanie loses her focus. Many years later, Mélanie attends an appointment with a woman at an advocate firm in Paris, France and is hired as an apprentice. Although just having gotten settled there, Mélanie has learned that one of the men who works at the firm named Jean is in need of a babysitter as his wife is about to perform at a concert with her trio called Anima, and offers to look after his son. Distinctly and precisely directed by French filmmaker Denis Dercourt, this finely paced fictional tale which is narrated mostly from the two main characters' viewpoints, draws a quietly and increasingly intriguing portrayal of an immaculately well-mannered French woman from a butcher family who without telling who she really is, moves into the home of the woman she regards as the sole reason for her having to let go of her aspirations to become a professional pianist. While notable for it's naturalistic and mostly interior milieu depictions, sterling cinematography by cinematographer Jérôme Peyrebrune, production design by production designer Antoine Platteau and use of sound, this character-driven and narrative-driven story where a renowned concert pianist whom has become fragile after a hit-and-run car accident finds a new friend and admirer in a younger woman who within days of taking care of her son named Tristan whom is learning to play piano, makes such an impression on her that she asks her to become her page turner, depicts two refined, internal and merging studies of character and contains a poignant and timely score by composer Jérôme Lemonnier. This minimalistic, conversational and distinctly atmospheric chamber piece from the late 2000s which is set in the capital city of France in the early 21st century and where a charming stranger with fine credentials whom has been carrying a grudge for years against an influential woman named Ariane Fouchécourt who ignored her when she as a teenager was performing a music piece which could have given her a future as a musician, comes walking into the life of a family with the intention of getting even with the person she holds responsible for her unsuccessful audition and possibility to achieve her childhood dream, is impelled and reinforced by it's cogent narrative structure, subtle character development, rhythmic continuity, mysterious, wickedly romantic and instrumental undertones, profoundly efficient and rarely obscure kiss, understated and memorable acting performances by French actresses Déborah Francois and Catherine Frot and the fine acting performances by French actor Pascal Greggory and French actress Julie Richalet. A gracious, cinematographic and accomplished psychological drama.

Rozinda Spoilers throughout You realise very early on I think that the young girl is going to be trouble. She never seems lively. She rarely smiles, or if she does it doesn't seem from happiness. She's very intense, as is the whole movie. This movie decidedly is not a barrel of laughs. In fact, I can't recall if there's a single laugh to be had from it. Don't let that put you off! It's well worth watching.The President of the selection committee is most definitely ill-mannered and indeed a disgrace. To allow someone to come into the audition room and then to sign a photograph during the young girl's playing is utterly disgraceful. Mme President is sitting right in the view of the young girl - the disturbance was unmissable. Even more curiously, we saw the associate with the photograph earlier, and Mme President dismissed her when she could have done the signature then if it was so urgent. Well, something has to happen so that the girl is disturbed and this is how it's very awkwardly contrived, it makes the selection committee as a whole seem totally incompetent (ie no-one seems surprised at Mme President's behaviour), and I felt it was a major weakness in the plot.However, it happens, and everything that follows is done splendidly. It's even clever that you think the young girl is out to commit a murder, but in the end she doesn't. Did she intend to and change her mind? Hard to say.With her revenge completed to her satisfaction, the young girl makes off leaving her victims in a suitable mess. Marriage broken up. Son with injury that has adverse implications for his piano-playing.Someone else remarked on the stiffness of the characters physically. Yes, I've also seen it before in French movies. It does seem to be a mannered form of acting liked by some directors. It doesn't detract from the acting, but it always seems very strange. No-one slouches naturally, nor even walks normally. They all seem to have sticks up their spines so they have to stand bolt upright and never relax. Well, you either like it or you don't but you sure notice it.

FilmCriticLalitRao In the history of cinema,it is believed that films about music are full of happy characters and pleasant endings.There are not so many instances where viewers get to see a film in which music is developed as a central theme which allows a lead performer to proceed towards revenge.French film "La Tourneuse De Pages/The Page Turner" is an exception to this rule.It is an exceptionally good film which shows us that it is quite possible for some people to use music as an element to seek revenge.By making good use of French cinema's leading actors such Pascal Greggory and Catherine Frot, director Denis Dercourt has ensured that his film clicks as these actors have given some of the most restrained performances seen in recent history of French cinema."The Page Turner" is also effective in highlighting social concerns involving poor people who dream of making big in their dreary existence. "La Tourneuse De Pages" would surely be a nice experience for all music lovers as watching it,we can hear good music as revenge theme takes its time.One of the major defect of this film concerns the fact that there are hardly any surprises in store.Astute viewers can easily guess what is going to happen.