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Belgian actress Déborah François, who impressed us in
the Dardenne brothers' The Child, excels in this precise,
cold-blooded revenge drama from writer/director Dercourt.
She plays butcher's daughter Mélanie, whose promising career
as a pianist was unknowingly ruined by Ariane (Catherine
Frot) when Mélanie was only 12. The embittered girl gains
employment in the household of Ariane who little suspects
the real reasons for her new employee's scrupulous attentiveness.
With a classical music accompaniment accentuating the tension
and suppressed emotion, The Page Turner is pleasingly reminiscent
of Claude Chabrol at his best.
"A deliciously elegant
and very French psychological thriller... A treat for lovers
of intelligent cinema" - Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
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