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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0842498020326
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Tartan Video
Manufacturer: Tartan Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Tartan Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 10, 2007
Running Time: 81 minutes
Sales Rank: 44033
Studio: Tartan Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2006
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Ten year-old Melanie has a special gift for the piano. But during her entrance recital for the Conservatory, she is distracted by the thoughtless behavior of Ariane, a well-known concert pianist. Melanie fails the exam and decides to give up the piano forever…
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Rating:  - Truly Missed Opportunity
You know, France has made many excellent thrillers with psychological depth underlying its apparently incredible, but still intriguing plot like "Les Diaboliques." If "La Tourneuse de pages" had been directed by someone like Henri-Georges Clouzot or Claude Chabrol, it might have been a great thriller As it is, we have to be content with the so-so direction of Denis Dercourt, who knows how to show the details of each scene, but not of the story.
[MILD SPOLIER INCLUDED IN THIS PARAGRAPH] The story is interesting. A young, quiet girl Melanie, daughter of a local butcher, wanted to be a pianist. But her dream was shattered because of the inconsiderate behavior of one juror during the competition. Well, that's how she thinks. Years later, grown-up Melanie shows up before the very person (who herself is a pianist) as a part-time nanny, and then sits by her as "page turner.".
This kind of story has a certain kind of format, so most people can predict what is coming in the final chapter. That is not a problem at all. What is really important is the way the film leads us to the ending and that is where "La Tourneuse de pages" disappoints us. The film suggests Melanie's rather simple plans and Melanie just does what she is supposed to do. Everything goes too smoothly; no twist, no surprise.
Despite several nice touches given to the details of the characters' traits, the film fails to explore the psychological aspects which the seemingly impossible story has: "What kind ... Read More
Rating:  - Revenge is sweet but the script is confused
An young ambitious pianist is thwarted at a competition by disinterest on the part of a judge and years later gets revenge on everyone that is close to the judge. The plot could have been more amusing, more complicated (many missed opportunities) Still it was enjoyable
Rating:  - When music doesn't charm a savage beast
The film begins with 10-year-old Melanie Prouvost's preparations for a piano recital that could win her a place in a prestigious Parisian conservatory. She informs her working-class parents that she will quit the piano if she doesn't succeed. During the audition, a judge is asked for an autograph and this distraction causes Melanie to flub her piece. Angered by this perceived slight and convinced of her lost opportunity, she forever gives up her ambition. The story fast-forwards to ten years later and Melanie is now an intern in a law firm. She overhears her boss saying that his son needs a nanny. Melanie gets the job. We find out that the boss' wife is none other than the judge who caused her to fumble at the recital, Ariane Fouchecourt, a renowned pianist. Ariane is a fragile woman whose confidence at concerts eroded after an auto accident. Melanie ingratiates herself with Ariane and the life of the Bourgeoisie that Melanie can only imagine. In short order she becomes Ariane's trusted page-turner at concerts and a much-needed source of affection. We assume Melanie is acting out a part, biding her time, waiting for the opportune moment to exact her revenge. We don't know when, we don't know how, we just know it'll happen.
"The Page Turner (La tourneuse de pages)" is not an average revenge thriller. Sans bloodshed, hysterics and action, the thrills here are tepid compared to what we're accustomed to in American films, but it is the very absence of these elements that makes ... Read More
Rating: - interesting but slow
A 10 year old piano student shows promising talent and enters a contest, but doesn't win. Several years later, she meets the lady (Catherine Frot) that made her lose. She gets her revenge by becoming her page turner.
Interesting plot. Decent acting. A little slow, too slow at times.
The psychology of the girl isn't explored as much as it could have.
Still not a bad movie. Just don't watch it if you expect a lot of action; there isn't much.
Rating:  - Not what it seems at first!!
First many reviewers talk about the girl as if she were a musical genius!! There is simply NO indication in the movie that she is anything but another average kid taking piano lessons!! These people are adding this to justify her actions, I think!
Second, to give up the piano just because you don't like what ONE judge does or says tells us the kid is "not right in the head!" But to stew about a minor slight for 10 years is serious mental illness.
Third, this not a spoiler because you don't know how the movie ends! Certain things happen because the young girl is vindictive but does she ever get her "just rewards?" This is a movie that you can add your own ending to. We are simply left hanging, so if you like neat endings this isn't one--it isn't even a real ending.
So here is MY ending I have come up with for myself: As she walks away, a [stolen]Police car comes out of the distance & hits her breaking both legs. The car stops, the cellist she injured deliberately gets out and helps her into the car like he's taking her to the hospital. But instead he drives the car into a lake & jumps out at the last second! You see her face close up as she realizes her legs are broken! Evil is punished!
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