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A Girl Cut in Two
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Wikipedia article
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| image = A Girl Cut in Two French poster.jpg
| caption = Theatrical release poster
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| director = Claude Chabrol
| writer =
| producer = Patrick Godeau
| starring =
| cinematography = Eduardo Serra
| editing = Monique Fardoulis
| music = Matthieu Chabrol
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| released =
| runtime = 114 minutes
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| language = French
| budget = $7.8 million
| gross = $8.5 million
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'A Girl Cut in Two' is a 2007 comedy thriller film directed by Claude Chabrol and starring Ludivine Sagnier, Benot Magimel and Franois Berland. It tells the story of a nave and affectionate girl who has disastrous relationships with two rich and influential men. One uses her as a sex object and abandons her, while the second marries her but proves lethally unbalanced. The film was released in France on 8 August 2007, and received a limited theatrical release in the United States on 15 August 2008.
Plot
Gabrielle, a pretty but innocent young woman, lives with her mother in Lyon and works as a weather girl for the local TV station. She attracts the attention of two very different men. One is Paul, the heir to a pharmaceutical fortune, who is too arrogant and immature to interest her seriously. The other is Charles, a nationally known writer more than twice her age whose wife stays in their country house while he uses a flat in town. There he takes Gabrielle and teaches her the sexual arts, expanding them by visits to an exclusive sex club. Having enjoyed all her youthful passion, he disappears on an extended business trip. Gabrielle falls into a severe depression and her worried mother eventually lets Paul visit.
He takes Gabrielle for a holiday to Lisbon, in separate rooms, and there she agrees to marry him. His widowed mother is appalled and a pre-nuptial contract excludes Gabrielle from all the family wealth. Not wanting any future misunderstanding with the insecure and volatile Paul, on their honeymoon she tells him about the relationship with Charles. Back in Lyon they attend a grand gala dinner for charity hosted by Paul's mother. The principal speaker is Charles and, in front of the town's lite, Paul shoots him dead. He gets a lenient sentence of seven years in an institution, from where he divorces Gabrielle, leaving her penniless.
Back home with her mother and seriously depressed, her uncle comes up with a solution. He tours with a cheesy magic show and Gabrielle in a sexy outfit becomes the girl who is cut in two by a circular saw. A close-up reveals that her emotional pain is unrelieved.
Cast and roles
* Ludivine Sagnier - Gabrielle Aurore Deneige
* Benot Magimel - Paul Andr Claude Gaudens
* Franois Berland - Charles Denis, known as Charles Saint-Denis
* Mathilda May - Capucine Jamet
* Caroline Sihol - Genevive Gaudens (credited as Caroline Silhol)
* Marie Bunel - Marie Deneige
* Valeria Cavalli - Dona Saint-Denis
* tienne Chicot - Denis Deneige
* Edouard Baer - Edouard, the actor who is interviewed
* Jean-Marie Winling - Grard Brianon
* Didier Bnureau - Philippe Le Riou
* Thomas Chabrol - Stphane Lorbach, the lawyer
* Charley Fouquet - Elonore Gaudens
* Hubert Saint-Macary - Bernard Violet
* Stphane Debac - Antoine Volte
References
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