The Girl Cut in Two Reviews

2009

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Gabrielle has a high profile job presenting the weather on French TV. Despite Gabrielle's staunch work ethic, she values her privacy over her professional career and lives in a modest house with her aging mother. One day, renowned author Charles Saint-Denis is interviewed at the television station where Gabrielle works, and the .. Read more

Starring	Ludivine Sagnier, Benoît Magimel, François Berléand, Mathilda May
Director	Claude Chabrol
Genres	Comedy, Drama, Thriller, World Cinema

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French society may be drifting towards Puritanism or decadence, says deciduous, sixtysomething, Goncourt-winning... read more on Time Out
- Wally Hammond,
- Time Out
- Posted 04 Nov 2008
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8 out of 8 people found this review helpful

Unlikely

Tell me again why this young, beautiful, sucessful girl fell for this elderly, unattractive, charmless, obnoxious, arrogant insensitive man.

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- - A customer from Herts
  - Posted 13 Sep 2009 11:55
3 out of 3 people found this review helpful

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Girl cut in two, film in bits

Even by Chabrol's declining standards this is dreadful. It looks and scales like a TV production. It's also got a tameness about it - where it should be... more

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- - Bribaba from London
  - Posted 14 Sep 2009 10:35
2 out of 3 people found this review helpful

All in French!!!

Despite the English title and description, this film is all in French with subtitles. Not only do I hate subtitles but the plot was very typically French and ... more

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- - A customer from England
  - Posted 23 Oct 2009 17:16
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful

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Girl cut in two, film in bits

Even by Chabrol's declining standards this is dreadful. It looks and scales like a TV production. It's also got a tameness about it - where it should be... more

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- - Bribaba from London
  - Posted 14 Sep 2009 10:35
8 out of 8 people found this review helpful

Unlikely

Tell me again why this young, beautiful, sucessful girl fell for this elderly, unattractive, charmless, obnoxious, arrogant insensitive man.

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- - A customer from Herts
  - Posted 13 Sep 2009 11:55

8 out of 8 people found this review helpful

Unlikely

Tell me again why this young, beautiful, sucessful girl fell for this elderly, unattractive, charmless, obnoxious, arrogant insensitive man.

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- - A customer from Herts
  - Posted 13 Sep 2009 11:55
3 out of 3 people found this review helpful

[Highly rated reviewer]

Girl cut in two, film in bits

Even by Chabrol's declining standards this is dreadful. It looks and scales like a TV production. It's also got a tameness about it - where it should be... more

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- - Bribaba from London
  - Posted 14 Sep 2009 10:35
2 out of 3 people found this review helpful

All in French!!!

Despite the English title and description, this film is all in French with subtitles. Not only do I hate subtitles but the plot was very typically French and ... more

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- - A customer from England
  - Posted 23 Oct 2009 17:16
1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

Gallic navel gazing

Unbelievable and dull? Or unbelievably dull. For credulous insommniacs only.

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- - A customer from 2nd row from the back, Lincolnshire
  - Posted 28 Sep 2009 08:07
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THE GIRL CUT IN TWO

The plot involving a pretty girl falling in love with an older man and being pursued by a younger one with tragic results could have come from a Somerset ... more

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- - Minopater from Wallington
  - Posted 06 Oct 2009 13:27
Oh Dear

Perhaps Chabrol is just too old. From a master film maker this is just awful. It's not often we give up on a film over an hour in - but life is just too ... more

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- - A customer from England
  - Posted 09 Oct 2009 12:00
utter rubbish

Firstly i will say that i am a fan of French films and have seen many films by Claude Chabrol, whom i rate highly.

This , however, was terrible and a... more

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- - A customer from Glasgow
  - Posted 12 Dec 2009 11:44
girl cut in two

didnt understand this film at all

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- - A customer from Faringdon
  - Posted 16 Jan 2010 16:47
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a game of two halves ..

Its not that I found this film unbelievable (apparently its based on a true story that occured in turn of the century new york) and knowing the French fairly ... more

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- - A customer from York
  - Posted 05 Feb 2010 13:13
Utter Rubbish

I have no idea why I rented this other than I must have pressed a button by mistake. I watched it in bewilderment all the way through. Dont waste your time with... more

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- - Janet McLeod from Liverpool
  - Posted 07 Feb 2010 19:46

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French society may be drifting towards Puritanism or decadence, says deciduous, sixtysomething, Goncourt-winning... read more on Time Out
- Wally Hammond,
- Time Out
- Posted 04 Nov 2008

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