Gabrielle 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.
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A Girl Cut in Two (2008)
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Reviews Counted: 28 Fresh: 22 Rotten:6 Average Rating: 6.6/10
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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.
Rated: Not Rated
Runtime: 1 hr 55 mins
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 (MERCI POUR LE CHOCOLAT), the decision isn't an easy one, and the results are far from romantic.... [More]
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: Ludivine Sagnier, Benoit Magimel, François Berléand, Valeria Cavalli, Mathilda May
Director: Claude Chabrol
Screenwriter: Cécile Maistre, Claude Chabrol
Producer: Patrick Godeau
Composer: Matthieu Chabrol
Screenwriter: Cécile Maistre, Claude Chabrol
Producer: Patrick Godeau
Composer: Matthieu Chabrol
Reviews
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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
Top Critic
Sex, murder, insanity, perversity -- A Girl Cut in Two has it all, yet it stands as a singularly classy and sophisticated drama.
09/04/08
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It's a very long way to go for a punch line, but Claude Chabrol fearlessly meanders along for the two hours it takes him to get there
09/04/08
This is one of Mr. Chabrol’s strangest films, but he still makes a ripple in his ocean.
08/27/08
Top Critic
As is nearly always the case with Chabrol, a special pleasure pervades the picture.
08/27/08
Top Critic
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
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Bordering on the surreal, Chabrol's latest film investigates conflicting desires in a woman in love. The old meets the new and the quandary remains unresolved.
08/18/08
A Girl Cut in Two is a rich, textured divertissement from Claude Chabrol, a sinister master of the art.
08/18/08
Top Critic
Chabrol was never as groundbreaking formally as his peers, but usually his films can be counted on for a craftsmen-like level of polish. Here, though, even that falters.
08/15/08
Veteran filmmaker Claude Chabrol's icy tale of love, lust and self-delusion is an elegant exercise in corrosive psychological suspense.
08/15/08
Chabrol has made a career out of savage class warfare, and A Girl Cut In Two fires off another bitter salvo.
08/15/08
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
Top Critic
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
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 Critic
An ill-fated love triangle with a surprising twist and a chilling message for shameless gold-diggers and suave Casanovas alike.
08/13/08
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