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Girl Cut in Two, A

Generally favorable reviews
Based on 21 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 7 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Drama | Suspense/Thriller
Written by:
Cécile Maistre
Claude Chabrol
Directed by: Claude Chabrol
Release Date:
Theatrical: August 15, 2008
Running Time: 115 minutes, Color
Origin: Germany | France
Summary
RATING: Not Rated
Starring Ludivine Sagnier, Benoit Magimel, Francois Berleand, Charley Fouquet, Caroline Silhol, and Edouard Baer
Gabrielle Deneige is an independent, ambitious TV weather girl torn between her love of a distinguished author several decades her senior, and the attentions of a headstrong, potentially unstable young suitor. An unspoken past between the two men heightens tensions, and though she's initially certain of her love for one them, the see-saw demands and whims of both men keep confusing - and darkening - matters. Before long she's encountering emotional and societal forces well beyond her control, inexorably leading to a shocking clash of violence and passion. Inspired by the sensational Gilded Age murder of Madison Square Garden architect Stanford White, A Girl Cut in Two is trademark Chabrol: fiendishly entertaining and impossible to shake. (IFC Films)
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What The Critics Said
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Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
Impeccably made and uncompromisingly adult, Claude Chabrol's A Girl Cut in Two is unquestionably the work of a master.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Manohla Dargis
An erotically charged, beautifully directed story of a woman preyed upon by different men and her own warring desires.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips
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.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
The plot was probably inspired by an actual event, which I will not mention because you may be familiar with it. In any event, Chabrol's insidious style is more absorbing than the plot, as it should be.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
A kind of deadpan soap opera - but one that, despite its high melodrama and wicked humor, delivers a real emotional wallop.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Wesley Morris
It's intriguing. To be honest, though, there is less to it all than meets the eye.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
Would be worthy of the highest rating, except for a slight slackening of energy in the last 20 minutes.
Read Full Review >New York Post V.A. Musetto
Chabrol, who is often called the French Hitchcock because of his intricate thrillers, is approaching the big 8-0, yet he continues to do quality work, as shown by A Girl Cut in Two.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
A dry, thoroughly modern reminder that while mores change, human nature doesn't.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian Stan Hall
The symbolic ending may strike some as a letdown but it's well-played by Sagnier, capping another in a string of memorable performances.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias
Chabrol develops the inevitable confrontation between the two men like a car wreck in slow motion, and getting there takes a little more work than it should; the film takes the form of a thriller, but it doesn't have the pace of one.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
Claude Chabrol's capacity to make shopworn material seem almost new is especially evident in this 2007 drama, which he cowrote with his stepdaughter, Cecile Maistre.
Read Full Review >Variety Lisa Nesselson
While not a classic, this is a pleasantly disturbing, nominally voyeuristic romp in the territory Chabrol knows best.
Read Full Review >Village Voice J. Hoberman
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.
Read Full Review >Washington Post John Anderson
For all its charisma, A Girl Cut in Two lacks a certain depth.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Kimberley Jones
A Girl Cut in Two is Hitchcock sans the whodunit, essentially a long preamble of seduction and spiritual ruin, capped by a crime everyone saw coming (and an eye-dazzling coda that twists the title from metaphor to … something else).
Read Full Review >The New Yorker Anthony Lane
I can't help wishing that Chabrol would, just once, cast off his own good narrative manners--do away with the irritations of a film like A Girl Cut in Two, which is never more than semi-plausible, and arrange his passions, as the elderly Buñuel did in "That Obscure Object of Desire," into shameless, surreal anagrams of wit and lust.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir
Arguably, A Girl Cut in Two is more fun around the edges, as an assemblage of bizarre supporting characters and throwaway comic bits, than it is down the middle, as a classic French morality tale.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Bernard Besserglik
Its impact is weakened by a limp ending and a sense that it all adds up to rather less than the sum of its parts.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Joe Neumaier
Velvety storytelling still feels more thawed-out than heated.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 5.7 (out of 10) based on 7 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Bruce N. gave it a7:
It's hard to feel sorry for anyone in this tale of narcissism and betrayal. But it's got a certain perverse appeal...noone apologizes for their brutal behavior.
