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].
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11/12/08
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A Girl Cut in Two (2008)
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Reviews Counted: 50
Fresh: 41
Rotten:9
Average Rating: 6.8/10
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 (MERCI POUR LE CHOCOLAT), the decision isn't... [More]
Starring: Ludivine Sagnier, Benoit Magimel, François Berléand, Valeria Cavalli
Director: Claude Chabrol
Reviews for A Girl Cut in Two
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
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10/18/08
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10/18/08
Top Critic 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 Critic While 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
Chabrol's fluid camera and less-is-more storytelling is thrillingly Hitchcockian, and his lack of judgment regarding the sexuality of his characters is refreshingly French.
09/23/08
A fine character study with some exceptional performances...but there's no getting around the fact that it's a saggy affair in places.
09/22/08
Although 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
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