La Fille Coupée en Deux (The Girl Cut in Two) (A Girl Cut in Two)

La Fille Coupée en Deux (The Girl Cut in Two) (A Girl Cut in Two) (2007)

  • 74% of critics liked it
    (84 reviews)

  • 37% of users liked it
    (2,594 ratings)

A television weatherwoman is pursued simultaneously by a spoiled pharmaceutical heir and a successful -- but much older -- writer in director Claude Chabrol's blackly comic tale of romance and class differences. Gabrielle Deneige (Ludivine Sagnier) has a high-profile job detailing the forecast on… More

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Unrated, 1 hr. 54 min.
Directed By
Claude Chabrol
Written By
Claude Chabrol, Cécile Maistre
Genres
Art House & International, Mystery & Suspense, Comedy
In Theaters
Aug 14, 2008 Wide
On DVD
Jan 1, 2009
IFC First Take

Critic Reviews

  • Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

    Claude Chabrol's capacity to make shopworn material seem almost new is especially evident in this 2007 drama.

  • Lisa Nesselson, Variety

    While not a classic, this is a pleasantly disturbing, nominally voyeuristic romp in the territory Chabrol knows best.

  • Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune

    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.

  • Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune

    Chabrol is a past master at visual storytelling and a stiletto wit.

  • John Anderson, Washington Post

    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.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Lewis C


    I'll be honest, I only watched The Girl Cut in Two because I think Ludivine Sagnier is a Class A hottie. So it's probably not a shock that I was underwhelmed by it. It's a rather French movie about a woman (Sagnier) who is pursued by two men, a young and emotionally… More

  • Elvira B


    A thriller inspired by the infamous, murderous New York love triangle between Evelyn Nesbit, Harry Thaw and Stanford White. The story takes place in modern-day France: Ludivine Saigner plays the lead, a lovely weather girl, Francois Berleand is the famous, aging writer who begins an… More

  • William D


    [size=3]Another French film about erotic obsession. Quelle surprise! "A Girl Cut in Two," by the nearly 80-year-old director [b]Claude Chabrol[/b], is the one-hundred-millionth French film about sexual passion run amok. How is it that the French can still stomach their… More

  • Mark A


    A most infuriating film by a famous director. Does Chabrol hate women as much as this indicates? Or is this some sort of Gallic humor that doesn't translate well? A young, somewhat naive woman, Gabrielle (Ludivine Sagnier) is pursued by two equally despicable characters. Charles… More

  • Jeff T


    Ridiculous. Which I'm pronoucing all French-y like. Merde.

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