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La Fille Coup�e en Deux (The Girl Cut in Two) (A Girl Cut in Two) (2007)

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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.

Average Rating: 7.6/10
Critic Reviews: 18
Fresh: 17 | Rotten: 1

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

Unrated, 1 hr. 54 min.

Art House & International, Mystery & Suspense, Comedy

Directed By: Claude Chabrol

Written By: Claude Chabrol, C�cile Maistre

In Theaters: Aug 14, 2008 Wide

On DVD: Jan 1, 2009

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Cast

Ludivine Sagnier
Gabrielle Deneige
Beno�t Magimel
Paul Gaudens
Fran�ois Berl�and
Charles Saint-Denis
Mathilda May
Capucine Jamet
Caroline Sihol
Geneviève Gaudens, Gen...
Marie Bunel
Marie Deneige
Valeria Cavalli
Dona Saint-Denis
Etienne Chicot
Denis Deniege
Thomas Chabrol
Maître Lorbach, Ma�tre...
Jean-Marie Winling
Gérardk Briançon, G�r...
Didier Benureau
Philippe Le Riou
Edouard Baer
Jeremie Chaplain

Critic Reviews for La Fille Coup�e en Deux (The Girl Cut in Two) (A Girl Cut in Two)

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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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Jonathan Rosenbaum

Chicago Reader

Top Critic

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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Lisa Nesselson

Variety

Top Critic

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

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Michael Phillips

Chicago Tribune

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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

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Colin Covert

Minneapolis Star Tribune

Top Critic

Although a minor work by Chabrol, it would be a major work by most directors, and one that's still fascinating even in its flaws.

September 18, 2008 Full Review Source: Washington Post

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John Anderson

Washington Post

Top Critic

A cool study of erotic longing, misguided love and class warfare in the civilized spheres of French society, Claude Chabrol's A Girl Cut in Two, despite its high melodrama and wicked humor, delivers a real emotional wallop.

September 18, 2008 Full Review Source: Philadelphia Inquirer

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Steven Rea

Philadelphia Inquirer

Top Critic

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

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Kelly Vance

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

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Prairie Miller

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

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Prairie Miller

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

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Dennis Schwartz

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

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Amber Wilkinson

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]

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Cosmo Landesman

Times [UK]

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

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

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Philip French

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

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Charlotte O'Sullivan

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

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Allan Hunter

Daily Express

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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Wally Hammond

Time Out

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

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Anton Bitel

Film4

The performances drip with clich�, 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]

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Ed Potton

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]

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Peter Bradshaw

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 Comment

Matt Bochenski

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

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Rob Daniel

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

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Tom Dawson

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]

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Christopher Tookey

Daily Mail [UK]

Heavy-handed French drama is a clumsy affair.

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

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Mark Adams

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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Karl French

Financial Times

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Audience Reviews for La Fille Coup�e en Deux (The Girl Cut in Two) (A Girl Cut in Two)

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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

November 6, 2010

Lewis C.

Super Reviewer

A thriller inspired by the infamous, murderous New York love triangle between Evelyn Nesbit, Harry Thaw and Stanford White. The story takes place in modern-day France: Ludivine Saigner plays the lead, a lovely weather girl, Francois Berleand is the famous, aging writer who begins an affair with her, and Benoit Magimel

June 8, 2009