La tourneuse de pages (2006)
(The Page Turner)
Country: FR
Technical: col 85m
Director: Denis Dercourt
Cast: Catherine Frot, Déborah François, Pascal Greggory
Synopsis:
A young girl is so wounded that her judge in a piano competition interrupts her listening to sign an autograph, that she gives up the instrument and years later exacts an elaborate revenge.
Review:
This extraordinarily intense drama recalls La Cérémonie and other invasions of bourgeois households by minatory outsiders that French cinema does so well. It encapsulates both the sensitivity and casual cruelty of childhood (the girl never really grows up emotionally), where so incidental an act as signing an autograph can have such far-reaching and devastating consequences. Having said that, like Harry in Dominik Moll's film, this character is exceptional in that she is so implacable and unforgiving, but also inscrutable. Dercourt capitalizes on François's impassivity, forged in the Dardenne brothers' furnace of social realism, by casting her as the peril in this demeure, and the rest of the choice cast is outstanding in every way.
(The Page Turner)
Country: FR
Technical: col 85m
Director: Denis Dercourt
Cast: Catherine Frot, Déborah François, Pascal Greggory
Synopsis:
A young girl is so wounded that her judge in a piano competition interrupts her listening to sign an autograph, that she gives up the instrument and years later exacts an elaborate revenge.
Review:
This extraordinarily intense drama recalls La Cérémonie and other invasions of bourgeois households by minatory outsiders that French cinema does so well. It encapsulates both the sensitivity and casual cruelty of childhood (the girl never really grows up emotionally), where so incidental an act as signing an autograph can have such far-reaching and devastating consequences. Having said that, like Harry in Dominik Moll's film, this character is exceptional in that she is so implacable and unforgiving, but also inscrutable. Dercourt capitalizes on François's impassivity, forged in the Dardenne brothers' furnace of social realism, by casting her as the peril in this demeure, and the rest of the choice cast is outstanding in every way.
(The Page Turner)
Country: FR
Technical: col 85m
Director: Denis Dercourt
Cast: Catherine Frot, Déborah François, Pascal Greggory
Synopsis:
A young girl is so wounded that her judge in a piano competition interrupts her listening to sign an autograph, that she gives up the instrument and years later exacts an elaborate revenge.
Review:
This extraordinarily intense drama recalls La Cérémonie and other invasions of bourgeois households by minatory outsiders that French cinema does so well. It encapsulates both the sensitivity and casual cruelty of childhood (the girl never really grows up emotionally), where so incidental an act as signing an autograph can have such far-reaching and devastating consequences. Having said that, like Harry in Dominik Moll's film, this character is exceptional in that she is so implacable and unforgiving, but also inscrutable. Dercourt capitalizes on François's impassivity, forged in the Dardenne brothers' furnace of social realism, by casting her as the peril in this demeure, and the rest of the choice cast is outstanding in every way.