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100Impeccably made and uncompromisingly adult, Claude Chabrol's A Girl Cut in Two is unquestionably the work of a master.
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90An erotically charged, beautifully directed story of a woman preyed upon by different men and her own warring desires.
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88The 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.
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88Keeps 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.
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88A kind of deadpan soap opera - but one that, despite its high melodrama and wicked humor, delivers a real emotional wallop.
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83Sagnier is yummy.
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75Chabrol, 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.
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75Would be worthy of the highest rating, except for a slight slackening of energy in the last 20 minutes.
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75A dry, thoroughly modern reminder that while mores change, human nature doesn't.
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75It's intriguing. To be honest, though, there is less to it all than meets the eye.
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The symbolic ending may strike some as a letdown but it's well-played by Sagnier, capping another in a string of memorable performances.
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75Chabrol 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.
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70A 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.
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70While not a classic, this is a pleasantly disturbing, nominally voyeuristic romp in the territory Chabrol knows best.
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For all its charisma, A Girl Cut in Two lacks a certain depth.
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70Claude 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.
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67A 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).
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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.
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60Arguably, 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.
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60I 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.
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40Velvety storytelling still feels more thawed-out than heated.
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