Veteran filmmaker Claude Chabrol's icy tale of love, lust and self-delusion is an elegant exercise in corrosive psychological suspense.
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08/15/08
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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
Chabrol has made a career out of savage class warfare, and A Girl Cut In Two fires off another bitter salvo.
08/15/08
Chabrol is approaching the big 8-0, yet he continues to do quality work, as shown by A Girl Cut in Two.
08/15/08
All of the characters are walking contradictions, each pulling and pushing away the viewer. Part of the film's tension derives from what the audience clearly sees and what Gabrielle doesn't.
08/15/08
a tasty cocktail of romance and jealousy
08/14/08
The pacing has a tendency to downshift from deliberate to meandering at crucial moments, and though the trio of actors is on point—especially Magimel, a master at smug menace -- Chabrol’s digs feel frustratingly halfhearted.
08/14/08
The film’s cerebral affectations unravel because neither one is ultimately able to carry the film’s disjointed plot.
08/13/08
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 CriticAn ill-fated love triangle with a surprising twist and a chilling message for shameless gold-diggers and suave Casanovas alike.
08/13/08
Girl Cut in Two is less interested in forensics than in the perplexities of violent acts, those that happen behind closed doors, inspired by the insanity of desire.
08/13/08
One of those Chabrol productions perched awkwardly between thriller and comedy.
08/11/08
Snappy timing, focused writing and pitch-perfect acting.
08/11/08
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
A cynically effective look at the suffocating lives endured by some of the rich and famous.
08/05/08
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
Still, watching a Claude Chabrol film is watching a master at work and this is an example of such.
07/11/08
The film intrigues throughout, although suffers from an opaque performance from Sagnier and a capper of such literal symbolism it blunts what came before it.
07/01/08
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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