''A Girl Cut in Two'' (french: La Fille coupée en deux) is a 2007
comedy thriller
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Criteria
They often include a darker tone, relative to other genres, of humor.
List of comedy thriller films
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Ludivine Sagnier
Ludivine Sagnier (born 3 July 1979) is a French actress and model who has appeared on screen since 1989. She was nominated three times for the César Award for Best Supporting Actress for ''Swimming Pool'' (2003), '' Peter Pan'' (2003), and ''A ...
,
Benoît Magimel
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and
François Berléand
François Berléand (; born 22 April 1952) is a French actor.
He plays Gilles Triquet, the officer manager and equivalent of David Brent in ''Le Bureau'', the French version of ''The Office'', produced by Canal+. He also appeared in the 2002 fil ...
. It tells the story of a naïve 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
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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 élite, 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
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Ludivine Sagnier
Ludivine Sagnier (born 3 July 1979) is a French actress and model who has appeared on screen since 1989. She was nominated three times for the César Award for Best Supporting Actress for ''Swimming Pool'' (2003), '' Peter Pan'' (2003), and ''A ...
- Gabrielle Aurore Deneige
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Benoît Magimel
Benoît Magimel (; born 11 May 1974) is a French actor. He was 14 when he appeared in his first film, and has starred in a variety of roles in French cinema. At age 16, Magimel left school to pursue acting as a career. In 2001, he won the Best Ac ...
- Paul André Claude Gaudens
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François Berléand
François Berléand (; born 22 April 1952) is a French actor.
He plays Gilles Triquet, the officer manager and equivalent of David Brent in ''Le Bureau'', the French version of ''The Office'', produced by Canal+. He also appeared in the 2002 fil ...
- Charles Denis, known as Charles Saint-Denis
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Mathilda May
Mathilda May (born Karin Haïm; 8 February 1965) is a French film actress.
Early life
May was born in Paris, France. Her father, playwright Victor Haïm, is of Sephardic Jewish ( Greek-Jewish and Turkish-Jewish) descent. Her mother is the Sw ...
Marie Bunel
Marie Bunel (born 1961) is a French film and stage actress.
Biography
Bunel was born on 27 May 1961 in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, Val-de-Marne, France. She attended the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in West Hollywood, California and to ...
- Marie Deneige
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Valeria Cavalli
Valeria Cavalli (born 1 November 1959) is an Italian actress and model.
Selected filmography
External links
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Living people
Italian female models
1959 births
Italian film actresses
Italian televi ...
- Dona Saint-Denis
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Étienne Chicot
Étienne Chicot (5 May 1949 – 7 August 2018) was a French actor and composer.Edouard Baer - Edouard, the actor who is interviewed
* Jean-Marie Winling - Gérard Briançon
* Didier Bénureau - Philippe Le Riou
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Thomas Chabrol
Thomas Chabrol (born 24 April 1963) is a French actor, director and screenwriter.
Filmography
On stage
References
External links
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1963 births
20th-century French male actors
21st-century French male ac ...
- Stéphane Lorbach, the lawyer
* Charley Fouquet - Eléonore Gaudens
* Hubert Saint-Macary - Bernard Violet
* Stéphane Debac - Antoine Volte
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