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Ludivine Sagnier Ludivine Sagnier discussing gender, jealousy, love, hypocrisy, legendary directors, bio-pics. 'Girl Cut In Two' is very simply the story of a woman -- a weather person on television news, recently promoted to chat show host -- who, as Ludivine Sagnier says in-interview, 'is a little sheep in the open mouth of the big bad wolf'; she's a 'devoted woman; she just gives herself completely away to the trust of men and that's beautiful to see.' Of course, only a person -- male or female, I wont say 'liberated woman' herein -- that is self-aware in a fundamental sense can do this, dedicate themselves ethically to what they believe in -- and in this dedication show up the crooked values scales of those around one. These are people whose own agendas and insecurities are fed and calmed by the victimization of an ingenue. I think 'Girl Cut In Two' is sorta like Woody Allen's 'Manhattan', if Allen's young lover in-film had grown up to be a weather girl, remaining fairly clear-headed while all around her are preoccupied with agendas, double standards, and closed doors -- which Chabrol uses often in-film, never showing the action; marriage vows, orgies, are all hidden. 'The obscenity, you are creating it' Sagnier says in-interview. The film's only events which play in full view are a murder and a magician's trick, which is the only honest illusion -- he's the only one who deals in legitimate deception, one which reveals her beguilingly simple self-reckoning of duality, which was so problematic for the morally retarded powers who needed to manipulate her to survive. I had more fun ascribing to the character of the weather girl the unlikely metaphor of her as media and how it is co-opted by interests who tell us everything from the weather to the (wealth-based) relative innocence or guilt of someone who commits an act of violence. A nice moment comes at the 5-minute mark: Ludivine describes her favorite Chabrol fllm, the sun begins to shine, illuminating her face as she tells the story. Source: youtube |
