 A Girl Cut in Two
Starring: Ludivine Sagnier, Benoit Magimel, Francois Berleand
Directed by: Claude Chabrol
Screenplay by: Claude Chabrol, Cecil Maistre
Release Date: August 15, 2008
MPAA Rating: None.
Studio: IFC Films
 Domestic: $409,658 (4.9%)
Foreign: $7,908,493 (95.1%)
Total: $8,318,151 (Worldwide)
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 New Wave legend Claude Chabrol helms this black comedy starring Ludivine Sagnier. In "A Girl Cut in Two, the blonde beauty plays a weathergirl caught between an older author (François Berléand) and a rich, younger man (Chabrol alum Benoit Magimel).
A television weatherwoman is pursued simultaneously by a spoiled pharmaceutical heir and a successful -- but much older -- writer in director Claude Chabrol's blackly comic tale of romance and class differences. Gabrielle Deniege (Ludivine Sagnier) has a high profile job detailing the forecast on French TV. Yet despite Gabrielle's staunch work ethic, she values her privacy over her professional career and lives in a modest house with her aging mother (Marie Bunel).
One day, renowned author Charles Saint-Denis (Francois Berleand) is interviewed at the television station where Gabrielle works, and the two feel an instant, powerful connection. Later, at a book signing, the pair continues to flirt despite the presence of entitled rich kid Paul Gaudens (Benoit Magimel) -- who openly despises the writer and longs to claim Gabrielle as his own.
Despite the fact that Charles is still happily married to his wife of twenty-five years (Valeria Cavalli), with whom he has set up home in a posh ultra-modern estate in the countryside, he and Gabrielle share an intimate afternoon at the author's nearby pied-a-terre. Later, as the potentially psychotic Paul steps up his pursuit of Gabrielle, the girl begins to question whether either of her suitors is pure in his intentions.
 Production notes provided by IFC Films. |
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