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A Girl Cut in Two Series: The 45th New York Film Festival [Sep 28 - Oct 14 2007] Director: Claude Chabrol, Country: France, Release: 2007, Runtime: 115 Claude Chabrol, with nearly 60 features behind him, is at the top of his game with this mordant social satire, filled with unforgettably nasty characters and inspired by the sensational Gilded Age shooting of architect Stanford White. A jaded novelist (François Berléand) competes with the bizarrely unstable heir to a Lyon pharmaceutical fortune (Benoît Magimel) for the affections of a luscious TV weather girl (Ludivine Sagnier). Chabrol skewers the pretensions of literati and haute bourgeois alike and, although the inevitable crime of passion is committed late in the movie, it’s evident that what we have really been watching is the gradual murder of a soul. Preceded by Saturday’s Shadow, which depicts the painful aftermath of a racially charged close encounter. Nick Gordon, UK, 2007, 10 min.

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