Synopsis
A Girl Cut in Two (La Fille coupée en deux, 2007) is a French drama you can watch online on iFILM. Claude Chabrol, one of the founding directors of the French New Wave, made this at 77 — and lost none of his cold precision.
Gabrielle hosts a TV weather forecast and ends up caught between two men: Charles Saint-Denis, a celebrated older novelist who desires her but won't leave his wife, and Paul Gaudens, a semi-unhinged young heir to an industrial fortune who wants to possess her entirely. Ludivine Sagnier carries the film with underplayed restraint; Benoît Magimel plays the opposite — volatile, dangerous, almost funny in how badly he's holding it together.
Chabrol watches the whole collision without judgment, with the detached curiosity of a director who has spent decades cataloguing what obsession does to otherwise rational people. Stream A Girl Cut in Two online on iFILM.
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