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 Betty Blue (Subtitled) (DVD) (DVD)
Description: Genre: Drama / Theatrical Release: 1986 / Director: Jean-Jacques Beineix / Actors: Jean-Hugues Anglade, Beatrice Dalle ... more  Betty Blue (Subtitled) (DVD) (DVD) ... ... / DVD released 13 March, 2006 at Sony Pictures Home Ent.UK / Features of the DVD: Anamorphic, PAL, Subtitled / 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 precious Diva 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 favourite of movie-soundtrack mavens, especially its haunting piano theme.-- Robert HortonNewest Review: ... passionate about making this happen, and does everything she can to help him on his way to become a published author. Zorg ... more ... and Betty are living in Zorgs shack like apartment on an estate on the beach, and the sleazy manager agrees to Betty staying if the pair paint all of the apartments. This really is a laborious job, as they are five hundred of them in all. Betty has taken the managers eye, and he is constantly making lewd suggestions, and sexual advances towards her, and Betty despises him for this. On completion of the painting the manager refuses to pay Zorg, and this is where Betty's unstable personality really starts to emerg...more |
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Betty Blue (Subtitled) (DVD) [1986]
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Betty Blue (Subtitled) (DVD) (DVD): WHY SO BLUE BETTY BLUE? (1084 words)
by PRINCESSPUSSYCAT - written on 29.02.08 (Very useful, 49 readings)
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- BETTY BLUE 37º2 LE MATIN - Released in 1986, Betty Blue Better known as 37°2 le matin is based upon the novel by Philippe Djian. Directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix (Diva and Moon in the Gutter). It tells the tale of a tragic love affair, a kind of modern day Romeo and Juliet. Starring Beatrice Dalle (La Belle Histoire and Dans tes reves), and Jean-Hugues Anglade (Killing Zoe and La Femme Nikita). I love French Cinema, and Betty Blue is one of my all time favourite French films. Known as a bit of a cult film, there is just something special about Betty Blue that really captures my imagination, and it is a film that I can watch time and ...
Blue Movie (898 words)
by Sullivat - written on 14.05.02 (Very useful, 718 readings)
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Betty Blue or 37°2 le matin Odd job man Zorg's (Jean-Hugues Anglade) previously unexciting life gets a shot of adrenalin in the form of the vivacious and stunning Betty (Beatrice Dalle). When Betty loses her job, Zorg lets her move in with him in his bungalow. Zorg's supervisor, who also happens to own the bungalows, suggests that the pair of them can carry on living there if the repaint the whole community. This they begin to do. Betty is enthralled to discover a manuscript that Zorg has put together, and vows to get him published. Betty grumbles at the exploitation of Zorg and after a number of lewd behaviours by the ...
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