Ludivine Sagnier, A Girl Cut in Two

France's blonde bombshell, known in the U.S.
for her collaborations with director Francois Ozon in
Swimming Pool and Water Drops on Burning
Rock, is happily pregnant with her second child
as she discusses working with
Claude Chabrol in A Girl Cut in Two. Another
of Chabrol's murderous studies of the French
bourgeoisie. Girl has Sagnier as a woman
desired by two very different men. Candid and bright,
Sagnier jokes about Ozon's "jealousy" when
she worked for Chabrol, the New Wave veteran whom Ozon
reveres, and the similarities and contrasts between
these modern masters.

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