A pitch-black fusion of dark comedy, icy melodrama and satirical sideswipes at the class system, held together with an absorbing lead performance.
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A Girl Cut in Two (2008)
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Reviews Counted:76
Fresh:56
Rotten:20
Average Rating:6.3/10
Consensus: 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.
Theatrical Release:Aug 15, 2008 Limited
Synopsis: In A GIRL CUT IN TWO, Gabrielle Snow (Ludivine Sagnier) has an enviable choice: between two rich, handsome men who desire her. But in this thriller from prolific French director Claude Chabrol... [More]
Starring: Ludivine Sagnier, Benoit Magimel, François Berléand, Valeria Cavalli
Director: Claude Chabrol
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Reviews for A Girl Cut in Two
The relationships are never completely convincing and there are too many unresolved questions to create an entirely satisfying tale.
05/22/09
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.
07/01/09
This is one of Mr. Chabrol’s strangest films, but he still makes a ripple in his ocean.
08/27/08
Top CriticToo cold and cynical to be truly enjoyed but the old dog still has a few new tricks up his sleeve.
05/22/09
... a deeply cynical film that makes no pretense about the status of women in society.
09/18/08
Snappy timing, focused writing and pitch-perfect acting.
08/11/08
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.
05/22/09
a tasty cocktail of romance and jealousy
08/14/08
...The film's pleasures come from the wit with which Chabrol assembles it as each scene glides sedately into the next one.
10/03/08
Chabrol is a past master at visual storytelling and a stiletto wit.
10/02/08
Though the performances are all first-rate, the film is let down by weak characterisation. Still, it’s enjoyable, if not exceptional.
05/28/09
It's not fresh material, but in the hands of a master like Chabrol it appears like a fresh breeze.
07/28/09
This latest skewering of the privileged, tragically flawed and selfishly driven makes it clear that there is no other filmmaker to better tell The Eliot Spitzer Story.
08/08/08
While not one of the director's best works, it's a classy, sophisticated entertainment with a typically rich subtext.
10/07/08
An exploration by French director Claude Chabrol of the illusions of love in the magical worlds of publishing, the media and old money.
07/16/08
A cynically effective look at the suffocating lives endured by some of the rich and famous.
08/05/08
A Girl Cut in Two is a spry piece of work. Chabrol uses this sinister clown show as a means to puncture the media world's hot-air balloons -- as well as to highlight the hypocrisies of his favorite target, the haute bourgeoisie.
08/13/08
Top CriticThere are some good performances. And it's definitely nothing like what we've come to expect from Claude Chabrol, a filmmaker who's been called the French Alfred Hitchcock.
11/07/08
Claude Chabrol's newest foray into darkness and bad behavior emerges as less of a murder or suspense story and more of a black comedy.
06/09/08
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