Coming after Yvan Noe 's best effort ,"la cavalcade des heures" (1943), "une femme coupée en morceaux " came up as an anti-climax ;based on a director's play,it shows all along the way. For example , the first meeting between the exes seems to be played on stage ; ditto for all the songs which are performed in music halls ,for this is theatre de boulevard cum musical .
A woman summons her lovers to her place but she's already gone;all of them are given a break up letter and all are upset and seeking for revenge .But where has she fled with her new squeeze? They say she fell for a music hall artist ;so they decide overnight to become themselves entertainers ,a vocal group called "The travellers":maybe they will be featured in the same show as their rival and their ex-mistress? They discover that the man is a conjurer who ,in an act which strikes terror into his audience's hearts , cuts his partner into pieces.
Which somehow justifies the title: the unfaithful woman was then cut into pieces in the figurative (four lovers ),now in the literal sense( pieces , so to speak).
One can give credit to the director for a rather astute ending ; also notable is the fact that the star of the film (Claude Dauphin) only appears in the final sequences.
