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'A Girl Cut in Two'

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Sex, murder, insanity, perversity - " A Girl Cut in Two" has it all, yet it stands as a singularly classy and sophisticated drama. It's erotic without showing skin, brutal but never bloody. It's not that French director Claude Chabrol, at 78, is a prude; the depravities here seem all the more shocking having gone unseen.

The story, a loose update of the 1906 scandal that surrounded the American...

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