La fille coupée en deux (2007)

Director:

Claude Chabrol

Writers:

Cécile Maistre (scenario, adaptation and dialogue) and
Claude Chabrol (scenario, adaptation and dialogue)

Release Date:

8 August 2007 (France)

Genre:

Drama | Thriller

Plot:

A black comedy centered around a TV weather girl and the two very different men who pursue her.

Plot Keywords:

TV | Black Comedy | TV Station | Lyon | Love

Awards:

2 wins

Cast

Ludivine Sagnier	...	Gabrielle Aurore Deneige
Benoît Magimel	...	Paul André Claude Gaudens
François Berléand	...	Charles Denis dit Charles Saint-Denis
Mathilda May	...	Capucine Jamet
Caroline Sihol	...	Geneviève Gaudens (as Caroline Silhol)
Marie Bunel	...	Marie Deneige
Valeria Cavalli	...	Dona Saint-Denis
Etienne Chicot	...	Denis Deneige
Edouard Baer	...	Edouard, l'acteur interviewé
Jean-Marie Winling	...	Gérard Briançon
Didier Bénureau	...	Philippe Le Riou
Thomas Chabrol	...	Maître Stéphane Lorbach
Charley Fouquet	...	Eléonore Gaudens
Hubert Saint-Macary	...	Bernard Violet (as Hubert Saint Macary)
Jérémie Chaplain
Clémence Bretécher	...	Joséphine Gaudens
André Asséo
Béatrice Audry
Alain Bauguil	...	Louis Giraudet
Denis Bénoliel
Antoine Bérard
Nicole Biondi
Alain Blazquez		(as Alain Blasquez)
Emanuel Booz	...	Alban
Jeanne Brouaye
Benoît Charpentier	...	Lui-même
Mic Cheminal
Mathieu Cléchet
Stéphane Debac	...	Antoine Volte
Pierre-François Dumeniaud	...	Monsieur Junot
Françoise Gambey
Fanny Gatibelza
Pierre-Henri Gibert
Vincent Guillerminet
Véronique Kapoyan		(as Véronique Kapoian)
Yannick Laurent
Cécile Maistre	...	Cécile
Gérard Moulévrier	...	Un enchérisseur
Raphaël Neal
Henri-Edouard Osinski
Marie Oury
Laurent Paillot
Thomas Poulard
Sandra Rebocho
Valentin Traversi
Mélanie Vaudaine
Daniel Zieba
Patrick Zimmermann

Directed by
Claude Chabrol

Writing credits
Cécile Maistre		(scenario, adaptation and dialogue) and
Claude Chabrol		(scenario, adaptation and dialogue)

Produced by
Patrick Godeau	....	producer

Original Music by
Matthieu Chabrol

Cinematography by
Eduardo Serra

Film Editing by
Monique Fardoulis

Production Design by
Françoise Benoît-Fresco

Costume Design by
Mic Cheminal

Makeup Department
Maya Benamer	....	key makeup artist
Alexandre Laforest	....	hair stylist
Aurélie Rameau	....	assistant makeup artist

Production Management
Grégory Back	....	assistant unit manager
Julien Brun	....	assistant unit manager
Michel Jullien	....	production manager
Cecile Regnauld	....	assistant unit manager
Sandrine Rouquié	....	assistant production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Vincent Guillerminet	....	assistant director
Isabel Lebre	....	second assistant director: Lisbon
Cécile Maistre	....	first assistant director
Mélanie Ravot	....	assistant director

Art Department
Catherine Pierrat	....	set dresser
Miss Tic	....	poster designer
Audrey Vincent	....	painter

Sound Department
Sophie Chiabaut	....	boom operator
Vincent Cosson	....	sound re-recording mixer
Eric Devulder	....	sound
Michel Filippi	....	adr supervisor
Thierry Lebon	....	sound re-recording mixer
Julien Naudin	....	foley artist
Seppe van Groeningen	....	boom operator
Jean-Alexandre Villemer	....	sound recordist

Visual Effects by
Guillaume Bauer	....	compositor
Marc Bonneviot	....	digital compositor
Nicolas David	....	visual effects
David Rodrigues	....	digital artist

Camera and Electrical Department
Florent Bazin	....	first assistant camera
Eric Bonnaire	....	grip
Mathieu Caudroy	....	Steadicam operator
Delphine Desbruères	....	second assistant camera
Moune Jamet	....	still photographer
Damien Lecoq	....	additional electrician
Dominique Robert	....	key grip
Emmanuel Théry	....	additional electrician

Casting Department
Maguy Aimé	....	casting assistant
Cécile Maistre	....	casting assistant (as Mademoiselle Chouchou)

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Sandrine Bernard	....	costumer
Valérie Sanis	....	additional dresser

Editorial Department
Christophe Bousquet	....	color timer
Stanislas Moreau	....	assistant editor

Music Department
Laurent Petitgirard	....	conductor
Maurice Vallet	....	composer: additional music

Other crew
Aurore Chabrol	....	script supervisor
Stéphanie Fouet	....	administrator
Catherine Franquin	....	location scout (as Cathy Franquin)
Nicolas Porte	....	location scout
Sandrine Rouquié	....	production assistant
Eva Simonet	....	press attache

Production Companies

• Alicéléo (present)
• Alicéléo Cinéma (co-production)
• France 2 Cinéma (co-production)
• Rhône-Alpes Cinéma (co-production)
• Integral Film (co-production) (as Integral Film GmbH)
• Région Rhône-Alpes (participation)
• Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC) (participation)
• Canal+ (participation)
• CinéCinéma (participation)

Distributors

• Wild Bunch Distribution (2007) (France) (theatrical)
• TF1 Vidéo (2008) (France) (DVD)
• Alfa Films (2008) (Argentina) (theatrical)
• Concorde Filmverleih (2008) (Germany) (theatrical)
• IFC Films (2008) (USA) (theatrical) (subtitled)
• IFC First Take (2008) (USA) (theatrical)
• Japan Community Cinema Center (2011) (Japan) (theatrical) (in association with)
• Kinokuniya (2011) (Japan) (theatrical)
• Mermaid Film (2011) (Japan) (theatrical)
• Spentzos Films (2007) (Greece) (theatrical)
• Artificial Eye (2009) (UK) (all media)
• EuroVideo (2008) (Germany) (DVD) (rental)
• Imovision (2008) (Brazil) (all media)
• KinoVista (2009) (Algeria) (TV)
• KinoVista (2009) (Morocco) (TV)
• KinoVista (2009) (Tunisia) (TV)
• Transeuropa Video Entertainment (TVE) (2008) (Argentina) (DVD)

Other Companies

• Cartier  thanks
• Chanel  thanks
• Céline  costumes: Mademoiselle Mathilda May est habilée par maison CELINE
• D. C. A.  sound transfer
• Jean Paul Gaultier  thanks
• Mairie de Lyon  thanks (as Le mairie de Lyon)
• Missoni  thanks
• Panavision France  camera equipment provided by
• Paul Smith  thanks
• Studio Acousti  music recording and mixing
• Vanessabruno  thanks

Also Known As:

"A Girl Cut in Two" - Canada (English title), USA (festival title)
"Die zweigeteilte Frau" - Germany
"The Girl Cut in Two" - International (English title)
"A Rapariga Cortada em Dois" - Portugal (imdb display title)
"Anamesa se dyo antres" - Greece (transliterated ISO-LATIN-1 title)
"Dziewczyna przecieta na pól" - Poland (imdb display title)
"En flicka i två delar" - Sweden
"Ikiye bölünen kiz" - Turkey (Turkish title)
"L'innocenza del peccato" - Italy
"La mujer partida en dos" - Argentina
"Una chica cortada en dos" - Spain (imdb display title)
"Una dama para dos" - Mexico
"Una mujer partida en dos" - Argentina

Runtime:

USA:115 min | France:115 min | Argentina:115 min

Country:

France | Germany

Language:

French

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby | Dolby SR | DTS

Certification:

Canada:14A | Germany:16 (f) | Italy:T | Argentina:13 | USA:Not Rated | Chile:14 | Mexico:B15 | France:U | Portugal:M/12 | Singapore:M18

Filming Locations:

Hôtel des Ventes Lyon Presqu'Ile - 6 rue Marcel Rivière, Lyon, Rhône, Rhône-Alpes, France

Company:

Alicéléo

Trivia:

Like L'ivresse du pouvoir (2006), four Chabrols worked on the film: Director and co-writer Claude Chabrol, his screenplay-supervisor wife Aurore Chabrol, and his two sons: composer Matthieu Chabrol and actor Thomas Chabrol.

Quotes:

Gabrielle Aurore Deneige:What do you do for a living?
Paul André Claude Gaudens:I live.

Soundtrack:

LOVE COCKTAIL

entertaining

The first thing that pops in mind after watching 'La fille coupée en deux' (= French for 'the girl cut into two parts') is, that this film provides good entertainment.

Devoid of any intellectual or philosophical pretensions, director Claude Chabrol's product does not tell an original story either. It deals with a love affair of a married man over 50, with a girl that easily could have been his daughter. Having another male lover of her own age in the background, this triangle predictably results in disaster.

What makes 'La fille coupée en deux' special, however, is the refined, typical French way of telling its story. Although doubtless serious, the plot of this film never and nowhere puts a heavy weight on your mind. The advertising on my DVD's French sleeve hits it well: "a dramatic comedy, soft as well as bitter, orchestrated by a master's hand".

Good entertainment, I said. No more than that - and certainly no less than that.