A fine character study with some exceptional performances...but there's no getting around the fact that it's a saggy affair in places.
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09/22/08
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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
A Girl Cut in Two is Hitchcock sans the whodunit, essentially a long preamble of seduction and spiritual ruin, capped by a crime everyone saw coming (and an eye-dazzling coda that twists the title from metaphor to … something else).
12/12/08
Chabrol has made a career out of savage class warfare, and A Girl Cut In Two fires off another bitter salvo.
08/15/08
The result is a film too cold for melodrama and too restrained for tragedy.
10/18/08
Chabrol has always been more interested in sensibility than sense, in discourse on fashion and form than in the narrative possibilities of function, and on the rich hypocrisies of the wealthy.
09/05/08
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04/23/09
In the end, we care little about any of the primary characters or what happens to them.
10/18/08
A Girl Cut in Two" is fatally self-serious and plodding, a rare misfire from a filmmaker as usually reliable about this stuff as Chabrol.
12/05/08
Too cold and cynical to be truly enjoyed but the old dog still has a few new tricks up his sleeve.
05/22/09
Claude Chabrol's capacity to make shopworn material seem almost new is especially evident in this 2007 drama.
12/16/08
Top CriticNotice how nimbly Chabrol glides through his establishing scenes, and how adroitly he introduces other characters.
09/12/08
Top CriticSpectacularly 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.
10/18/08
Top CriticClaude 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
A cynically effective look at the suffocating lives endured by some of the rich and famous.
08/05/08
... a deeply cynical film that makes no pretense about the status of women in society.
09/18/08
The relationships are never completely convincing and there are too many unresolved questions to create an entirely satisfying tale.
05/22/09
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.
05/22/09
There 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
In A Girl Cut in Two, Sagnier is yummy as a local TV weathergirl caught between a womanizing older novelist (François Berléand) and a nouveau riche playboy (Magimel) used to getting his own way.
08/19/08
Top CriticSnappy timing, focused writing and pitch-perfect acting.
08/11/08
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