best movie i've ever seen.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

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

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.

"La Tourneuse De Pages", "The Page Turner" is a very well made drama from the year 2006. Ariane (played by Catherine Frot is the accomplished pianist who has suffered psychological trauma in an earlier car accident. Her husband, M. Fouchecourt (played by Pascal Greggory) is a prominent attorney who is very protective of his wife. And Deborah Francois plays the beautiful Melanie who has an interesting and meaningful tryst with with her mentor in this thought provoking French drama. The majority of the film takes place at the mansion or Ariane and M. Fouchecourt. It is a spectacular place with beautiful photography of the grounds. The music is a delight to hear, and one can be certain to enjoy this film.

Several comments around this movie used the saying 'revenge is a dish served cold' which seems to resume so well the story. A young girl sees her dream to become a pianist broken when a famous pianist in the jury negligently signs an autograph and distracts her during the admission exam to the music school. Many years later we see her grown up as an anonymous secretary hired to be a nanny and than a page turner to the pianist, in fact devising an elaborate revenge.The thrill and the failure of the movie lie both in the cool and sophisticated building of the revenge, with an expectation of violence that never becomes real. The young assistant brilliantly played by Déborah François - looking here like a kind of a French version of Scarlett Johansson - comes from a socially inferior milieu but one who hints to violence (her father is a butcher). Yet her revenge as much we expect to be violent is mostly psychological, she wins the confidence of the whole family just to break the career of the pianist making her fail at a key audition, and to distort the style and cause pain to her son, also an aspiring piano pupil. The quality of the film can be found in the description o the subtle class differences between the characters and in the intellectual and music filled atmosphere that envelops almost all the duration of the screening. Here lies also however the failure of the film, at least for viewers who did not come to watch a pure art film, who will leave I think as I did, with a feeling of in-satisfaction because as the revenge seems to be too cool and non-balanced relative to the breaking a child's dreams in life. As most of the viewers are in cinema theaters to watch something else than a good camera music concerto, I am afraid that they will share my opinion.