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Fri 11 Nov 2006Revenge is SuiteReviewed - The Page Turner (La Tourneuse de Pages): DENIS Dercourt, a classical musician with a sideline in cinema, here delivers a tight, tense little thriller from the cuckoo-in-the-nest school.The film is layered with tension and features secure, buttoned-up performances from both principals. The Page Turner is, however, more than a little trite and features a denouement too unlikely even for a film in this heightened genre. Though nods to Hitchcock and Chabrol are everywhere about, the piece ends up feeling more like a superior episode of Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected (though not all that unexpected, to be honest).