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La Fille Coupée en Deux

The Girl Cut in Two

France 2007
produced by
Patrick Godeau for Alicéléo, Rhône-Alpes Cinéma, France 2, Integral Film
directed by Claude Chabrol
starring Ludivine Sagnier, Benoît Magimel, Francois Berléand, Mathilda May, Caroline Sihol, Marie Bunel, Valeria Cacalli, Etienne Chicot, Thomas Chabrol, Jean-Marie Winling, Didier Bénureau, Edouard Baer, Clémence Bretécher, Charley Fouquet, Hubert Saint-Macary, Alain Bauguil, Emanuel Booz, Stéphane Debac, Pierre-Francois Dumeniaud, Cécile Maistre, Benoît Charpentier
written by Claude Chabrol, Cécile Maistre, music by Matthieu Chabrol

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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TV-weatherwoman turned talkshow host Gabrielle (Ludivine Sagnier) is torn between two men, the writer Charles (Francois Berléand), who is much older than her, and the young and unstable dandy Paul (Benoît Magimel), who lives off his dad's inheritance, and who is Charles' sworn enemy.

Actually, she realls loves Charles, despite the fact that he is happily married to Dona (Valeria Cavalli) and likes to treat her like dirt - like breaking off with her immediately after they first had sex. Eventually though, she seems to be able to conquer Charles, who also promises her to leave his wife - but in return she has to join his swinger parties he holds regularly at a local club ... but after she has done everything he asked her to, he not only vanishes without a trace, he also has the locks to their lovenest changed ...

Gabrielle is heartbroken, and only Paul tries to cheer her up and succeeds to an extent, so much so that she actually agrees to marry him, even though she doesn't love him (which she freely admits to him).

On the eve of her wedding, Charles shows up again and asks her not to marry Paul, but she turns him down. Once Gabrielle and Paul are married though, he just can't come over his jealousy towards Charles and especially the whole swingerclub affair, and at a social function, Paul shoots Charles dead in cold blood.

When he's in jail, Paul's mother (Caroline Sihol), who always openly deplored Gabrielle, implores her to paint Charles in a shady light to let her son off (relatively) easy by telling her a cock-and-bull story about Paul accidently killing his brother at age three, and Gabrielle is naive enough to tell the truth and nothing but the truth in court, which puts her into the center of a sex scandal - and really gets Paul off easy. Paul's mom meanwhile has seen to it that Paul divorces Gabrielle on the spot and that she doesn't get a penny of his fortune. In the end, Gabrielle has become a magician's assistant who is sawed in two on a regular basis.

 

Claude Chabrol does what he always does, making a bitter satire of the bourgeoisie ... only the more often he does it, the more repetitive it seems. Now that's not to say that La Fille Coupée en Deux is an all bad film, it has its amusing moments, however it's also not all that special and it lacks its edge, and especially the swingerclub-subplot is so clumsily and subtly hinted at that one at once feels reminded of similar themed Joe Sarno-films from the 1960's (e.g. Sin in the Suburbs) and at the same time realizes how much more finesse exploitation director Sarno has put into his direction more than 40 years ago compared to the celebrated French director. Plus, the ending (the magic show) is nothing short of heavy-handed and little more than a cliché not worthy of Chabrol.

That all said, La Fille Coupée en Deux is not all bad, but Claude Chabrol has made much better movies and should not be judged by this one.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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