Claude Chabrol's capacity to make shopworn material seem almost new is especially evident in this 2007 drama.
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12/16/08
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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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Top CriticA 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
It's billed as a 'Hitchcockian thriller,' but frankly I see nothing either Hitchcockian nor thrilling this same-old Gallic tale...
12/10/08
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
Chabrol does his best work in the thriller genre, but he seems colder and frankly humorless when he works with real-life stories [as he does here].
11/12/08
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
Chabrol keeps such rigid formal control of the material that it feels more momentous than such a tawdry tale has any right to.
10/28/08
It's cynical business as usual for Claude Chabrol, who offers plentiful style and psychological finesse, if few surprises, in his latest jaundiced and sophisticated entertainment.
10/18/08
While not a classic, this is a pleasantly disturbing, nominally voyeuristic romp in the territory Chabrol knows best.
10/18/08
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10/18/08
In the end, we care little about any of the primary characters or what happens to them.
10/18/08
The result is a film too cold for melodrama and too restrained for tragedy.
10/18/08
...hopelessly stale...
10/18/08
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.
10/18/08
Top CriticWhile the movie's main concern -- skewering bourgeois hypocrisy -- is not particularly fresh or innovative, Chabrol's craft is so precise, his way with actors and the camera so sure-handed, even this ordinary story is often immensely enjoyable.
10/17/08
At age 78, director Claude Chabrol is more than capable of giving us a completely realized world.
10/17/08
While not one of the director's best works, it's a classy, sophisticated entertainment with a typically rich subtext.
10/07/08
More than a century later, this is still a juicy story, and the actors don't back away from its more hysterical flourishes.
10/03/08
...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
Under the cool tone is a devastating portrait of an unapologetically sexual woman treated more as an object than a person.
10/02/08
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