"The Girl Cut in Two" ('La Fille coupée en deux") is a French comedy film directed by Claude Chabrol, starring actors Ludivine Sagnier, François Berléand and Benoît Magimel.
The film revolves around two men who vie for single young woman 'Gabrielle Deneige', a local TV weather girl.
Chabrol is noted as one of the core members of the French New Wave group of filmmakers who first came to prominence in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Like his fellow New Wave directors Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Éric Rohmer and Jacques Rivette, Chabrol worked as a critic for the influential film magazine "Cahiers du Cinema" before pursuing a career in filmmaking.Often characterized as the most 'mainstream' of the New Wave directors, Chabrol at the age of 78, remains prolific and popular throughout a half-century career...
