Though the performances are all first-rate, the film is let down by weak characterisation. Still, it’s enjoyable, if not exceptional.
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05/28/09
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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:22-05-2009
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
Reviews for A Girl Cut in Two
This description may make this movie sound much more interesting than it is.
05/28/09
One’s final impression is that aging legends make unreliable puppet-masters. And that it’s all too easy for a desirable young actress to be left dangling in mid-air.
05/22/09
The relationships are never completely convincing and there are too many unresolved questions to create an entirely satisfying tale.
05/22/09
This is one of Chabrol’s most elegant, acerbic and heartfelt entertainments in years.
05/22/09
Top CriticToo cold and cynical to be truly enjoyed but the old dog still has a few new tricks up his sleeve.
05/22/09
Top CriticThe performances drip with cliché, while the narrative is all over the place: plot developments are either clumsily telegraphed or given the flimsiest of dramatic explanation.
05/22/09
Top CriticWith elegance and despatch, veteran new wave master Claude Chabrol has brought off his most enjoyable film for some time.
05/22/09
Top CriticChabrol may be one of the great survivors of the New Wave, but this is an old man’s film.
05/22/09
Patronising, unsexy, and heavy with the musty smell of a director past his sell-by-date, you're advised to cut this off at the ankles.
05/22/09
An elegant, darkly amusing effort that relishes taking digs at the middle-classes while leaving its characters’ supposedly perverse acts firmly to our imaginations.
05/22/09
Most people won't care enough about these people or believe in their relationships to sit out all 115 minutes of this icily mannered film that continually hints at darker, more subversive themes of sado-masochism than it dares to explore.
05/22/09
Heavy-handed French drama is a clumsy affair.
05/22/09
By the time the story springs to life and becomes the thriller, of sorts, that it seems set up to be, we have had to sit through 90-odd minutes of turgid melodrama.
05/22/09
One keeps hoping that some of that sinister Chabrolian wit will enliven the film's smooth surface, but alas, it never does.
05/22/09
A pitch-black fusion of dark comedy, icy melodrama and satirical sideswipes at the class system, held together with an absorbing lead performance.
05/22/09
Enjoyably dark, superbly acted French drama that proves veteran director Claude Chabrol hasn't lost his touch.
05/21/09
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
It's not fresh material, but in the hands of a master like Chabrol it appears like a fresh breeze.
07/28/09
Talk is everything, with action hinted at the edges, as Chabrol's camera sidles off to look at a casually thrown book, or skates away from anything salacious.
07/01/09
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