The Girl Cut in Two (2007)

Not Recommended

France/Germany

Feature Film

Original Title: La fille coupée en deux

Director: Claude Chabrol

Writers: Claude Chabrol, Cécile Maistre

Cinematographer: Eduardo Serra

Composer: Matthieu Chabrol

Cast: Ludivine Sagnier, Benoît Magimel, François Berléand, Mathilda May, Caroline Silhol, Marie Bunel

Chabrol’s well-made but risibly and fatally unconvincing film – based on the infamous 1906 White-Nesbit-Thaw crime passionnel – sees an attractive and increasingly successful young television personality, when dumped by her middle-aged, married author lover, marry an obnoxious and decidedly unstable upper-class gent, who struggles to come to terms with her past sexual encounters. Iain.Stott