A Girl Cut in Two Is a "Deliciously Dry Dark Comedy"

A Girl Cut in Two, a deliciously dry dark comedy from the famed French director Claude Chabrol, who hasn’t lost his touch in skewering the intellectual and bourgeois set, opens this week at the IFC Center. Ludivine Sagnier plays a sweet TV weather girl who falls under the spell of a very married, acclaimed, elderly novelist (Francois Berleand) while being wooed by the wealthy, unstable heir to a pharmaceutical fortune (Benoit Magimel). And what would a Chabrol film be without a little murder thrown in... Chabrol's film goes against the grain of the normal thriller (as is his style) but delivers the goods nonetheless. And Magimel as the jaded, rich eccentric is sublime.