Slow dirge of revenge resounds in 'Page Turner'

Mar. 30--Sometimes, it takes only a moment to change a life -- for better or worse. In Denis Dercourt's classical music thriller "The Page Turner," a little girl named Melanie Prouvost (Julie Richalet), who is playing piano in a jury competition for a scholarship and a chance to escap...

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Published inMcClatchy - Tribune Business News p. 1
Main Author Wilmington, Michael
Format Newsletter
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington Tribune Content Agency LLC 30.03.2007
Subjects
Classical music
Fouchecourt, Ariane
Fouchecourt, Jean
Francois, Deborah
Frot, Catherine
Musical performances
Musicians & conductors
Orchestras
Prouvost, Melanie
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Summary:Mar. 30--Sometimes, it takes only a moment to change a life -- for better or worse. In Denis Dercourt's classical music thriller "The Page Turner," a little girl named Melanie Prouvost (Julie Richalet), who is playing piano in a jury competition for a scholarship and a chance to escape her petit-bourgeois background for a musician's life, has her concentration disrupted and the audition ruined when the jury head, famed concert pianist Ariane Fouchecourt (Catherine Frot), turns away to sign an autograph for a pushy fan. Frustrated and angry, Melanie abandons the piano, then, years later, meets Ariane again, when she's hired by the pianist's husband, lawyer Jean Fouchecourt, for a file clerk job. Soon, she's brought home by the impressed Jean to take up duties as his young son's guardian.