Claude Chabrol's capacity to make shopworn material seem almost new is especially evident in this 2007 drama.
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A Girl Cut in Two (2008)
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Reviews Counted:18
Fresh:17
Rotten:1
Average Rating:7.6/10
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
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Top CriticWhile not a classic, this is a pleasantly disturbing, nominally voyeuristic romp in the territory Chabrol knows best.
10/18/08
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 CriticChabrol is a past master at visual storytelling and a stiletto wit.
10/02/08
Top CriticAlthough a minor work by Chabrol, it would be a major work by most directors, and one that's still fascinating even in its flaws.
09/18/08
Top CriticA 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.
09/18/08
Top CriticAlong the way, a powerful spectacle unfolds with serious class and feminist implications.
09/12/08
Top CriticNotice how nimbly Chabrol glides through his establishing scenes, and how adroitly he introduces other characters.
09/12/08
Top CriticGabrielle is more than a girl cut in two by this ambience, she's pulled every which way, a situation that the director investigates with the subtlety and complexity only a lifetime behind the camera can provide.
09/05/08
Top CriticChabrol 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
Top CriticSex, murder, insanity, perversity -- A Girl Cut in Two has it all, yet it stands as a singularly classy and sophisticated drama.
09/04/08
Top CriticThis is one of Mr. Chabrol’s strangest films, but he still makes a ripple in his ocean.
08/27/08
Top CriticAs is nearly always the case with Chabrol, a special pleasure pervades the picture.
08/27/08
Top CriticIn 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 CriticNever more than semi-plausible.
08/18/08
Top CriticA Girl Cut in Two is a rich, textured divertissement from Claude Chabrol, a sinister master of the art.
08/18/08
Top CriticChabrol is approaching the big 8-0, yet he continues to do quality work, as shown by A Girl Cut in Two.
08/15/08
Top CriticA 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
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