Dear oh dear, it's hard to believe someone with the pedigree and experience of Chabrol could bring himself to put his name to this awful film. The plot and characters all step straight out of bad film cliché-land; a woman torn between two lovers, one the older, wiser but cynical ....and oh my God...a writer too. The other, young, rich, aristocratic, gregarious but emotionally scarred, perhaps even slightly mad. The female characters don't come off much better; the eponymous girl bisected trundles around the set - and it very much has the feel of a film set, of a movie being made- with an insipid demeanour which may have made sense if she had subsequently shown some degree of erratic, explosive, contradictory behaviour. She doesn't. While the male characters are two-dimensional mannequins, at least a couple of the other female characters hint at having a life beyond the page we are watching them being draped across. But not much.
Very lazy work, suggest you read a telephone directory instead, it will give you more insight into the human condition.
Very lazy work, suggest you read a telephone directory instead, it will give you more insight into the human condition.