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DOWN THE MIDDLE: Benoît Magimel and Ludivine Sagnier in A Girl Cut in Two
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Limited Release: Aug 15, 2008; Rated: Unrated; Length: 110 Minutes; Genres: Drama, Foreign Language; With: Benoit Magimel and Ludivine Sagnier
B+
By Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum is a film critic for EW

The inspiration for Claude Chabrol's satisfyingly nasty French drama of desire and jealousy is the Gilded Age American scandal involving the ornate sex life, and death by gunshot, of famous architect Stanford White. But the details of this arch, chic update set in modern-day Lyons — evincing a fascination with hypocrisy among the cultured classes — are pure Chabrol. In A Girl Cut in Two, Sagnier is yummy as a local TV weathergirl caught between a womanizing older novelist (François Berléand) and a nouveau riche playboy (Magimel) used to getting his own way. B+


Posted Aug 15, 2008
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