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The Girl Cut in Two [DVD]

François Berléand (Actor, Host), Mathilda May (Actor, Host), Claude Chabrol (Director, Host) Rated:
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3.6 3.6 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
IMDb6.2/10.0
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Genre Comedy
Format PAL
Contributor Hubert Saint-Macary, Didier Bénureau, Caroline Sihol, Benoît Magimel, Marie Bunel, Die zweigeteilte Frau, François Berléand, Ludivine Sagnier, The Girl Cut in Two ( La fille coupée en deux ) ( Die zweigeteilte Frau ), La fille coupée en deux, Etienne Chicot, Claude Chabrol, Valeria Cavalli, The Girl Cut in Two, Mathilda May See more
Language French
Runtime 1 hour and 55 minutes
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Product Description

A TV weather girl (Ludivine Sagnier) is caught in the middle when a spoiled playboy (Benoît Magimel) and a famous author (François Berléand) compete for her affections.

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  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ Unrated (Not Rated)
  • Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.4 x 5.35 x 0.55 inches; 0.01 ounces
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Claude Chabrol
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ PAL
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 55 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ September 7, 2009
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ François Berléand, Mathilda May, Etienne Chicot, Didier Bénureau, Hubert Saint-Macary
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
  • Producers ‏ : ‎ The Girl Cut in Two ( La fille coupée en deux ) ( Die zweigeteilte Frau ), The Girl Cut in Two, La fille coupée en deux, Die zweigeteilte Frau
  • Language ‏ : ‎ French (Dolby Digital 2.0)
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Artificial Eye
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B002ED8BMA
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.6 3.6 out of 5 stars 24 ratings

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3.6 out of 5 stars
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4.0 out of 5 stars It's all in your head
Reviewed in the United States on September 3, 2010
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Hot but leaves almost everything to the imagination. After watching you'll believe you saw things that were never in the film.
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Eddy101
5.0 out of 5 stars Life Choices
Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2022
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Movie was provocative, full of decisions to make and full of regrets. Loved it all!!!
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Bookworm936
3.0 out of 5 stars slow in the beginning...
Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2011
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I felt the movie was just alright. It felt very slow to me. It took a while before anything remotely interesting happened. I was almost ready to give up on it. A young girl falls for an old married author. The author feeds her lines that he loves her and will leave his wife and things of this nature. The girl then starts hanging out with a young wealthy heir. She is eventually torn between the two men although it is most evident which one she prefers. I really enjoyed the ending. It didn't have a sterotypical ending. Actually, the ending is why I gave it 3 stars. I don't want to ruin it by giving it away and the ending isn't life changing or anything of that nature...I just liked it because it wasn't the typical happy ending riding off into the sunset on a white horse along the beach sort of thing.
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Nurwho
5.0 out of 5 stars PASSION AT ITS BEST
Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2011
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A very passionate, heart felt predicament unravels in this well told story. A must for anyone who has ever truly been in love with someone who did not love them in return.
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cs211
4.0 out of 5 stars A May/September romance whose effects last forever
Reviewed in the United States on November 28, 2011
Romantic liaisons between younger women and older men aren't supposed to last. The initial impulse isn't supposed to last, the incompatibilities in age and lack of shared cultural experiences are supposed to prevent a deep bond from forming, and the censure of polite society is supposed to eventually cause the parties to sever their ties. Yet what if the initial impulse is deep enough, and various parties around the lovers are rash enough, to trigger effects which last for the lifetimes of both participants? This is the intriguing scenario explored by director/writer Claude Chabrol (assisted by writer Cecile Maistre) in "A Girl Cut in Two".

The "May" of the romance is a young on-air television personality wonderfully played by Ludivine Sagnier, who in this film is the embodiment of the expression "a breath of fresh air". The "September" of the romance is an aging author and intellectual capably portrayed by Francois Berleand. Sagnier manages to demonstrate some believable longing and chemistry towards Berleand, even though their scenes together are not explicit (Sagnier fans will see a lot more of her, so to speak, in the film "Swimming Pool"). Unfortunately for our lovers, not only is Berleand's character married as well as fussed over by a publicity agent (played by Mathilda May) with whom he is also dallying on the side, but Sagnier's character is the desired object of affection of a brash, spoiled young heir played by Benoit Magimel. This combustible mix eventually explodes, as it must.

"A Girl Cut in Two" is a very French film, and will appeal to those seeking an immersion in French culture, society, and morals. The setting is not Paris but rather the smaller southern French city of Lyon, which is beautifully captured on film. But the most intriguing aspect of the film is Berleand's character, and what his many actions and deceptions say about French society and morals in the early 21st century. Berleand's character, although he is exalted for the truths contained in his writings, invents different "truths" to suit his circumstances, and eventually pays a price for doing so.

Ludivine Sagnier fans who appreciate her for more than just the charms of her beauty and body will enjoy "A Girl Cut in Two", as will those seeking a thought provoking film about upper-crust French society.
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4.0 out of 5 stars The girl in the red velvet buzz saw
Reviewed in the United States on November 10, 2009
Claude Chabrol was one of the most luminous of the lights that the Nouvelle Vague produced, gaining international attention with his psychological drama "Les Cousins" (1959), then later creating tense thrillers like "Le Boucher" (1970) and "Nada" (1974). His 2007 film "A Girl Cut in Two" ("La Fille Coupée en Deux") combines these styles to give us a strange story of emotional and sexual obssession. "One man's love is another man's lust," the tag line says, and the movie opens with images seen through a red filter and "In questa Reggia" on the soundtrack, indicating there's a dangerous story underway. It starts off safely enough, with a TV personality Gabrielle (Ludivine Sagnier) having an affair with a famous author (François Berléand), even though he is married and old enough to be her father, and although he sees her strictly as a sex object, escorting her to an exclusive "club". At the same time she is courted by the wealthy scion of a chemical fortune (Benoit Magimel) who at first seems remarkably immature. It is only after she marries the heir that she realizes fully he is not so much immature as perilously deranged. Aware of her relationship with the author, he starts berating and nagging his wife, finally threatening her with a gun. If this plot is beginning to sound familiar it's because it is an almost blow-by-blow retelling of the White-Nesbit-Thaw affair which shocked New York in 1906. That scandal has been presented on the screen at least twice, in 1955's "The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing" and 1981's "Ragtime"; and it's not at all unlikely that Chabrol as a young man saw the former movie on its original release and was quite impressed, not only with the 22-year old Joan Collins playing the title role but with Richard Fleischer's smooth direction. At any rate he has made the scandal his own, setting the story not in early twentieth-century New York but in modern-day Lyon, and re-creating the characters to be similar but not exact replications of the original personalities. So Gabrielle (having been fired from her television celebrity) doesn't end up in a red velvet swing but being the "victim" in a carny show as the scantily-dressed girl sawn in two by her magician uncle. It's an ambiguous ending to a strong movie, but if one follows the train of thought here and assumes that Gabrielle's fate is going to be like that of Evelyn Nesbit (who, after a life of drug addiction and suicide attempts, died in a nursing home in 1967) it's a sad ending indeed.
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bonfiglioli angelo
4.0 out of 5 stars L'innocenza del peccato
Reviewed in Italy on August 31, 2018
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Un bel film con una buona trama ,e un intrigo amoroso che coinvolge due uomini e una donna.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A unconventional mixture of two straightforward plots
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 7, 2018
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A somewhat offbeat film by Claude Chabrol, it has thriller elements but is also a form of social satire.. Ludivine Sagnier plays the girl "cut in two" between an older lover and younger one. But she doesn't fully realise that they are both using her and that she is not as important to them as she thinks she is. The plot darkens into more obvious thriller territory as the film develops.
All three, Francois Berleand as the much older man and Benoit Magimel as the young man and Sagnier, give utterly convincing performances.
The DVD also has an interview with Ludivine Sagnier, although it is not especially illuminating.
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MarkusG
5.0 out of 5 stars Good Chabrol
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 29, 2009
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If you like Chabrol's films you will probably like this. It has all the ingredients: sex, lies, sociopaths, murder and money. Set among chilly intellectuals and despicable upper-class and media people. The protagonist is a young girl working as weather announcer who gets caught in a battle between two rather unethical and very wealthy men, a rich young playboy and a famous writer. The acting is excellent (some of them have been in earlier films of Chabrol) and the plot is suspenseful, interesting and unpredictable, a good Chabrol movie that I can recommend. I think it is about time that Bfi, AE, Criterion or MoC launch Chabrol's earlier works on DVD with good transfers and extra material.
The picture/transfer of this AE DVD is excellent, I watched it on a projector and it looked superb.
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Woody
1.0 out of 5 stars The reputation cut in shreds
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 15, 2010
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Goodness, this is a real stinker of a movie.
Chabrol what were you thinking of ?
Talk about the Emperors new clothes.
Time to retire I think, before you lose any more credibility.
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Mr Glenn King
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 24, 2015
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Great buy
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