Shiny slippery people In true French form, two debonair men woo the pretty weather girl; while the antics of Jean-Paul Belmondo are brought back to life

The Sunday Telegraph London | May 24, 2009| | Copyright

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As an ongoing season at London's BFI Southbank commemorates, it's 50 years since the French New Wave first rolled into British cinemas. Before his fellow Cahiers du Cinema critics Truffaut and Godard took their directorial bows, it was Claude Chabrol who made the nouvelle vague's first ripples, with 1958's Le Beau Serge. A half-century on, with The Girl Cut in Two - an indifferent riff on the real-life murder case that inspired 1955's The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing starring Joan Collins - he's arrived at the one ...

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