Denis Decourt's, Page Turner is a vivid study in the darkness or vileness of the human spirit. As I was watching the film, I was continually reminded of Kieslowski's Decalogue: Five, another exploration into the darkness, which sometimes empowers us. Both films show in excessively lucid manners, the gruesomeness of revenge. In the Page Turner, Melonie's destructive actions, though not as physically violent, as the protagonist in Decologue Five's, are just as damaging.
The Film leaves us with hints of the extent of the premeditation, of Melonie's actions, but is never made extraordinarily clear. The result, as in Kieslowski's piece, is a mediation on what the breaking point of the human spirit is, and to what extent/for what reason's an individual's destructive tendencies are unleashed. Don't let the title fool you, The Page Turner is almost bestial in its darkness.
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