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Makes me feel alive and kicking....
Masterful French director Jean Jacques Beineix, had placed himself firmly on the map in the 80's with his sensational film "Diva" in 1981. When he followed that effort up in 1986 and made "Betty Blue", many moviegoers were reassured that he wasn't simply a one trick pony. "Betty Blue" was even more... Read full review »
The One That Got Away
I have heard "Betty Blue" called 'pretentious' and 'a waste of film'. In a way... but watch the director's cut. I have not seen the director's cut yet, this movie being extremely hard to find.. but there is a lot more going on here.
I must admit that the cut that made it to tape was hard...
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Desert Heat, Lust and Madness
Zorg, a plumber and wannabe writer, is working on a holiday/retirement home project for an entrepreneur and during his time there meets Betty, a young woman approaching twenty, with whom he starts a passionate liaison. The movie opens on an afternoon scene of tangled limbs, moans and grunts, as... Read full review »
C'est le vent, Betty...
In 1986, French director Jean-Jacques Beineix released his movie ?Betty Blue? unto an unsuspecting world. Based on Philippe Djian?s novel, ?37?2 le matin? or ?37.2 degrees in the morning? (also the film?s French title - the approximate body temperature of a pregnant woman), the film was a roaring... Read full review »
Come Ye Psychos, Sluts And Lushes
Trying to overanalyze Betty Blue is as productive as summoning poltergeists through a possessed Ouija board; you?re doomed to draw out your own psychotic undercurrents. I suggest an alternative method for film appreciation. One balmy summer night when the moon is as swollen as a pregnant... Read full review »
The Unforgettable Betty Blue
While the plot of Betty Blue is not entirely different from Jonathan Demme's Something Wild (i.e., nice, normal boy meets strange, wild woman and they share misadventures together), the ensuing relationship is more complicated and subtle and the ending of Betty Blue is anything but Hollywood.
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The madness of young love exemplified
"Betty Blue" is a more of a slice of life taken from the lives of two disadvantaged but ardent lovers than a movie. It flows like one's memories of the previous year, capturing the wildest, most noteworthy and the most powerful actions and emotions, while all the time cementing them with a lucid... Read full review »
The Bluest Betty
?Betty Blue? is at times a wonderfully uplifting, carefree tribute to the individuality of humans, and at other times an extremely dark and depressing view of how fragile we all are on our basest levels. It?s the combinations of these two feeling that make ?Betty Blue? an excellent, original film... Read full review »
Forever Betty
I forget exactly how I came across the film Betty Blue the first time; if you have seen the film, you too will be talking like Jean-Hugues Anglade (Zorg) by the time the movie is over. Beatrice Dalle will always be remembered for Betty in this film. She is forever Betty.
I do remember that...
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Betty Blue (Unrated Director's Cut)
Zorg lives a quiet and peaceful life, working diligently and writing in his spare time. Until Betty walks into his life, a young woman who is as beautiful as she is wild and unpredictable. When Betty's wild manners start to get out of control, Zorg is forced to watch the woman he loves slowly go insane. Featuring French Superstars Jean-Hugues Anglade, Béatrice Dalle. From Jean-Jacques Beineix, the acclaimed director of the cult art house favorite, Diva. The sexy cult classic is now available from the first time on DVD and it's the unrated director's cut! Academy Award® nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.
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Betty Blue [VHS]
Sex and sunlight are on ample display in Betty Blue, director Jean-Jacques Beineix's passionate look at mad love. (Every French director is contractually required to make at least one movie about l'amour fou.) It begins at the seashore, where handyman and failed novelist Zorg (Jean-Hugues Anglade) has his life electrified by Betty, a woman whose sense of abandon frequently tips over into the pathological. This was the role that introduced gap-toothed, voluptuous Beatrice Dalle to the world, and neither Dalle nor the world has ever quite recovered. Traces of Beineix's preciousDiva are still present, though this is a darker and more memorable ride, especially in the three-hour "version integrale" that restores an hour of footage. Its copious nude scenes are a drawing card, but stick around for the age-old alchemy of life translated into art. Gabriel Yared's score is a favorite of movie-soundtrack mavens, especially its haunting piano theme. --Robert Horton
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