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La Fille Coupée en Deux (The Girl Cut in Two) (A Girl Cut in Two) (2007)

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74

Average Rating: 6.3/10
Reviews Counted: 84
Fresh: 62 | Rotten: 22

Nouvelle Vague master Claude Chabrol balances subtle stabs of humor and biting class criticism to explore a love story and the seedier side of the haute bourgeois.

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Average Rating: 7.5/10
Critic Reviews: 21
Fresh: 19 | Rotten: 2

Nouvelle Vague master Claude Chabrol balances subtle stabs of humor and biting class criticism to explore a love story and the seedier side of the haute bourgeois.

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A television weatherwoman is pursued simultaneously by a spoiled pharmaceutical heir and a successful -- but much older -- writer in director Claude Chabrol's blackly comic tale of romance and class differences. Gabrielle Deneige (Ludivine Sagnier) has a high-profile job detailing the forecast on French TV. Yet despite Gabrielle's staunch work ethic, she values her privacy over her professional career and lives in a modest house with her aging mother (Marie Bunel). One day, renowned author

Jan 1, 2009

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This is one of Chabrol's most elegant, acerbic and heartfelt entertainments in years.

May 22, 2009 Full Review Source: Time Out
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Claude Chabrol's capacity to make shopworn material seem almost new is especially evident in this 2007 drama.

December 16, 2008 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader
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While not a classic, this is a pleasantly disturbing, nominally voyeuristic romp in the territory Chabrol knows best.

October 18, 2008 Full Review Source: Variety
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Spectacularly assured, A Girl Cut in Two keeps you off-balance as it establishes a world where every conversation is a flirtation, and trouble and heartbreak sneak in on little cat feet when no one's looking.

October 18, 2008 Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune
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More than a century later, this is still a juicy story, and the actors don't back away from its more hysterical flourishes.

October 3, 2008 Full Review Source: Seattle Times
Seattle Times
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Chabrol is a past master at visual storytelling and a stiletto wit.

October 2, 2008 Full Review Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune
Minneapolis Star Tribune
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Another patented Chabrol commentary, not a morality play but something far more worldly and difficult to ignore.

August 15, 2011 Full Review Source: East Bay Express
East Bay Express

Chabrol's astute dissection of sex, class and show business. Bravo, Claude, a rare man in profound touch with the darker impulses of his species.

September 13, 2010 Full Review Source: NewsBlaze
NewsBlaze

Chabrol's astute dissection of sex, class and show business. Bravo, Claude, a rare man in profound touch with the darker impulses of his species.

September 13, 2010 Full Review Source: NewsBlaze
NewsBlaze

It's not fresh material, but in the hands of a master like Chabrol it appears like a fresh breeze.

July 28, 2009 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

Talk is everything, with action hinted at the edges, as Chabrol's camera sidles off to look at a casually thrown book, or skates away from anything salacious.

July 1, 2009 Full Review Source: Eye for Film
Eye for Film

Though the performances are all first-rate, the film is let down by weak characterisation. Still, it's enjoyable, if not exceptional.

May 28, 2009 Full Review Source: Times [UK]
Times [UK]

This description may make this movie sound much more interesting than it is.

May 28, 2009 Full Review Source: Observer [UK]
Observer [UK]

One's final impression is that aging legends make unreliable puppet-masters. And that it's all too easy for a desirable young actress to be left dangling in mid-air.

May 22, 2009 Full Review Source: This is London
This is London

The relationships are never completely convincing and there are too many unresolved questions to create an entirely satisfying tale.

May 22, 2009 Full Review Source: Daily Express
Daily Express

Too cold and cynical to be truly enjoyed but the old dog still has a few new tricks up his sleeve.

May 22, 2009 Full Review Source: Film4
Film4

The performances drip with cliché, while the narrative is all over the place: plot developments are either clumsily telegraphed or given the flimsiest of dramatic explanation.

May 22, 2009 Full Review Source: Times [UK]
Times [UK]

With elegance and despatch, veteran new wave master Claude Chabrol has brought off his most enjoyable film for some time.

May 22, 2009 Full Review Source: Guardian [UK]
Guardian [UK]

Chabrol may be one of the great survivors of the New Wave, but this is an old man's film.

May 22, 2009
Little White Lies

Patronising, unsexy, and heavy with the musty smell of a director past his sell-by-date, you're advised to cut this off at the ankles.

May 22, 2009 Full Review Source: Sky Movies
Sky Movies

An elegant, darkly amusing effort that relishes taking digs at the middle-classes while leaving its characters' supposedly perverse acts firmly to our imaginations.

May 22, 2009 Full Review Source: Total Film
Total Film

Most people won't care enough about these people or believe in their relationships to sit out all 115 minutes of this icily mannered film that continually hints at darker, more subversive themes of sado-masochism than it dares to explore.

May 22, 2009 Full Review Source: Daily Mail [UK]
Daily Mail [UK]

Heavy-handed French drama is a clumsy affair.

May 22, 2009 Full Review Source: Sunday Mirror [UK]
Sunday Mirror [UK]

By the time the story springs to life and becomes the thriller, of sorts, that it seems set up to be, we have had to sit through 90-odd minutes of turgid melodrama.

May 22, 2009 Full Review Source: Financial Times
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Audience Reviews for La Fille Coupée en Deux (The Girl Cut in Two) (A Girl Cut in Two)

Highly interesting if a bit uneven mix of black comedy, melodrama and thriller. This is Chabrol at his most sharpest in years, but dialogue sounds very forced and at times characters motifs seems just plain absurd. it does get better in the end, but the change of pace comes too late. Too bad because this truly had a potential to be something great, now it is just plain solid Chabrol.
January 7, 2012
emilkakko

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I'll be honest, I only watched The Girl Cut in Two because I think Ludivine Sagnier is a Class A hottie. So it's probably not a shock that I was underwhelmed by it.

It's a rather French movie about a woman (Sagnier) who is pursued by two men, a young and emotionally volatile rich man, and an older married writer. Both men are ultimately bad options, and the movie quickly changes from something of a charming romantic film to something much darker in tone. It could be called "a movie cut in two", if a person wanted to be clever (which I do).

Anyway, neither half of the movie was particularly good, in my opinion. The narrative tended to wander, Sagnier's character seemed silly and unsympathetic with little explanation of why, and the other characters were almost universally unlikable or uninteresting. Combine all that with the odd (and not in a compelling way) ending, and The Girl Cut in Two becomes a movie that I probably wouldn't recommend.
November 6, 2010
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Foreign Titles

  • Die zweigeteilte Frau (DE)
  • The Girl Cut in Two (La Fille coupee en deux) (UK)
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