La fille coupée en deux (2007)

User Rating:

6.2/10   

Director:

Claude Chabrol

Writers:

Claude Chabrol (writer)
Cécile Maistre (writer)

Release Date:

8 August 2007 (France)

Genre:

Drama | Thriller

Plot:

A black comedy centered around a TV weather girl and the two very different men who pursue her. |

Plot Keywords:

TV | Murder Trial | Extramarital Affair | Writer | Cuckold

Awards:

2 wins

Cast

Ludivine Sagnier	...	Gabrielle Aurore Deneige
Benoît Magimel	...	Paul André Claude Gaudens
François Berléand	...	Charles Denis dit Charles Saint-Denis
Mathilda May	...	Capucine Jamet
Caroline Sihol	...	Geneviève Gaudens (as Caroline Silhol)
Marie Bunel	...	Marie Deneige
Valeria Cavalli	...	Dona Saint-Denis
Etienne Chicot	...	Denis Deneige
Thomas Chabrol	...	Maître Stéphane Lorbach
Jean-Marie Winling	...	Gérard Briançon
Didier Bénureau	...	Philippe Le Riou
Edouard Baer	...	Edouard, l'acteur interviewé
Clémence Bretécher	...	Joséphine Gaudens
Charley Fouquet	...	Eléonore Gaudens
Hubert Saint-Macary	...	Bernard Violet

Also Known As:

A Girl Cut in Two (Canada: English title) (USA) (festival title)
Die zweigeteilte Frau (Germany)
The Girl Cut in Two (International: English title)

Runtime:

USA:115 min | France:115 min | Argentina:115 min

Country:

Germany | France

Language:

French

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby | Dolby SR | DTS

Certification:

Canada:14A | Germany:16 | Italy:T | Argentina:13 | USA:Not Rated | Chile:14 | Mexico:B15 | France:U

Filming Locations:

Hôtel des Ventes Lyon Presqu'Ile - 6 rue Marcel Rivière, Lyon 2, Rhône, Rhône-Alpes, France

Company:

Alicéléo

Trivia:

Like L'ivresse du pouvoir (2006), four Chabrols worked on the film: Director and co-writer Claude Chabrol, his screenplay-supervisor wife Aurore Chabrol, and his two sons: composer Matthieu Chabrol and actor Thomas Chabrol.

Quotes:

Gabrielle Aurore Deneige: What do you do for a living?
Paul André Claude Gaudens: I live.

Placid

"A Girl Cut In Two" is the kind of movie that requires a lot of patience from its audience (it moves slowly and runs long), without really rewarding them for it at the end. Listed by IMDb as a drama/thriller, it is basically a drama about a young weather girl (and later TV show host) caught in two parallel relationships with a middle-aged writer and a rich heir about her age, with the "thriller" part (such as it is) coming into play only in the last 20 minutes. One of the main problems with the film is that the viewer can see right away that neither of these relationships is going to work out - the older man is married and just looking for cheap thrills, the younger man acts borderline psychotic right from the start - and you wonder how the heroine, who seems fairly smart in most ways, can be so naive as to not see that these two men are unworthy of her time. Perhaps the two most likable characters - the heroine's uncle and the young man's little sister - have very little screen time. The film is very well-acted, especially by Ludivine Sagnier and Francois Berléand, but ultimately it is a minor work for someone of Claude Chabrol's great reputation. (**)