Do you want to see ‘372 le Matin (Betty Blue) (37.2 Deg...’?

Add to Netflix

372 le Matin (Betty Blue) (37.2 Degrees in the Morning) (1986)

tomatometer

All Critics
Top Critics

Average Rating: 6.5/10
Reviews Counted: 26
Fresh: 20 | Rotten: 6

No consensus yet.

Average Rating: 5.6/10
Critic Reviews: 9
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 4

No consensus yet.

audience

liked it
Average Rating: 4.1/5
User Ratings: 13,698

My Rating

Added to your Facebook Timeline. — undo

Movie Info

Jean-Jacques Beineix's Betty Blue stars B�atrice Dalle as the title character, a mentally unbalanced and sexually aggressive free spirit who becomes involved with Zorg (Jean-Hugues Anglade), a repairman moonlighting as a writer. The two engage in a variety of sexual encounters, and grow more passionate toward each other. Betty finds Zorg's book and is aggressively supportive; over time, her mental and emotional instability begin to catch up with her and drive her to the point of romantic

Unrated, 2 hr. 1 min.

Drama, Romance, Art House & International

Directed By: Jean-Jacques Beineix

Written By: Jean-Jacques Beineix, Philippe Djian

In Theaters: Apr 9, 1986 Wide

On DVD: Oct 12, 2004

Alive Films

372 le Matin (Betty Blue) (37.2 Degrees in the Morning) Trailer & Photos

Cast

Jean-Hugues Anglade
Zorg
Beatrice Dalle
Betty
G�rard Darmon
Eddy
Consuelo de Havilland
Lisa
Cl�mentine C�lari�
Annie
Vincent Lindon
Policeman Richard
Jacque Mathou
Bob
Claude Confortes
Bungalow Owner
Philippe Laudenbach
Guneco Publisher
Raoul Billerey
Old policeman
Claude Aufaure
Doctor
Andr� Julien
Old Georges
Nathalie Dalyan
Maria
Louis Bellanti
Mario
Bernard Robin
Renter No. 2
Nicolas Jalowyj
Little Nicolas
Dominique Besnehard

Critic Reviews for 372 le Matin (Betty Blue) (37.2 Degrees in the Morning)

All Critics (26) | Top Critics (9) | Fresh (21) | Rotten (7) | DVD (10)

A playful, meandering, somewhat confusing tale that hangs together as a portrait of demented love.

July 24, 2009 Full Review Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune

| Comment

Colin Covert

Minneapolis Star Tribune

Top Critic

Curvy, ripe Dalle, only 21 at the time and in her first screen role, completely commits to the part.

June 10, 2009 Full Review Source: Village Voice

| Comment

Melissa Anderson

Village Voice

Top Critic

The movie was colorful and swirling and oppressive all at once, and in 1991, Beineix recut it not to slim it down but to add a florid third hour.

June 8, 2009 Full Review Source: New York Magazine

| Comment

David Edelstein

New York Magazine

Top Critic

Dalle, a model, makes a moving debut as the desperate baby-doll who fails to mold reality to her own conceptions of happiness. Anglade is more introvertedly affecting as the lucidly casual, but devoted Zorg.

March 26, 2009 Full Review Source: Variety

| Comment

Variety Staff

Variety

Top Critic

If Betty Blue teaches us anything -- and there's a good chance it doesn't -- it's that life is full of little mysteries.

May 20, 2003 Full Review Source: New York Times

| Comment

Janet Maslin

New York Times

Top Critic

Love is not the same thing as nudity. This may seem obvious, but I feel it ought to be explained to director Jean-Jacques Beineix.

October 2, 2002 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times

| Comment

Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

Top Critic

Introducing the world to the galvanic, incomparable Beatrice Dalle constitutes the only noteworthy facet of Betty Blue.

May 16, 2011 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine

| Comment

Chris Cabin

Slant Magazine

Flows in a lambent pop style, warm to the touch and scarily intimate

November 15, 2009 Full Review Source: CinePassion

| Comment

Fernando F. Croce

CinePassion

There can be beauty in tragedy, particularly when the key ingredient is the same in both

October 18, 2009 Full Review Source: Movie Habit

| Comment

Marty Mapes

Movie Habit

Rarely seen in this country in the intervening 23 years, Dalle gives one of the all-time-great performances as Betty.

July 24, 2009 Full Review Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press

| Comment

Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)

St. Paul Pioneer Press

It's a passionate love story executed in a dull fashion.

June 26, 2009 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews

| Comment

Dennis Schwartz

Ozus' World Movie Reviews

Beinex's Oscar-nominated, quintessentially French amour fou tells of a love relationship that descends into madness, splendidly played by Dalle as the free-spirited troubled femme; one scene of self-inflicted violence is truly tough to watch.

June 20, 2009 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com

| Comment

Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com Source: EmanuelLevy.Com

Occasionally drags and meanders, but it boasts an impressive visual style and a radiant, charismatic performance by the ultra-sexy B�atrice Dalle.

June 17, 2009 Full Review Source: NYC Movie Guru

| Comment

Avi Offer

NYC Movie Guru

Expanded to its intended length, the movie feels not like a failed narrative hastily washed in luridness but a purposefully meandering allegory of artistic frustration.

June 11, 2009 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine

| Comment

Joseph Jon Lanthier

Slant Magazine

If Betty Blue feasts on the bodies of its leads, it's this director's cut that fully establishes the movie's artistic bona fides.

June 10, 2009 Full Review Source: Time Out New York

| Comment

Joshua Rothkopf

Time Out New York

The best thing about the film is the pouty, 21-year-old Dalle.

June 8, 2009 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide

| Comment

TV Guide's Movie Guide

If Dalle never made anything of note again -- and she didn't -- then this alone would be enough to stake her claim as an icon of late 20th century cinema.

June 8, 2009 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine

| Comment

Empire Magazine

Beineix's film is awash with the humour and cool of his debut, Diva, but lacks the cohesion to sustain its weighty ambition.

June 8, 2009 Full Review Source: Film4

| Comment

Film4

Devastating.

October 25, 2007 Comment

Cole Smithey

ColeSmithey.com

Beineix's villagescapes and countryside vistas are hard to resist, and the dichotomy of a stone cold looney prancing around them only makes the tableau more curiously complete

October 29, 2004 Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com

| Comment

Christopher Null

Filmcritic.com

More Critic Reviews

Audience Reviews for 372 le Matin (Betty Blue) (37.2 Degrees in the Morning)

View All

An almost dream-like love story of passion and tragedy, Betty Blue is haunting in it's beauty and heartbreaking in its revelation of what it means to truly love someone. It's very of it's time but it's also timeless, if that makes any sense at all. The acting is great and the cinematography is beautiful, It is a

April 11, 2011

Anthony Lawrie

Super Reviewer

Singular and extravagant characters driven by their most basic instincts. living love, lust and insanity to its fullest. Pictorially and musically beautiful. A feast for the senses when you have a wacky sense of humour and a weak spot for stories of intense couples in a vital quest.

July 15, 2007

Pierluigi Puccini

Super Reviewer

372 le Matin (Betty Blue) (37.2 Degrees in the Morning) Quotes

View All

No quotes approved yet for 372 le Matin (Betty Blue) (37.2 Degrees in the Morning). Logged in users can submit quotes.

Character	Quote
	Enter quote here...	Delete

DVD

Top Rentals

35%	The Hangover Part II
25%	Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Par...
81%	Kung Fu Panda 2
44%	Cowboys & Aliens
83%	Rise of the Planet of the Apes

More…

New On DVD This Week

25%	Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Par...
88%	Lady and the Tramp
69%	A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas
21%	Fireflies in the Garden
45%	The Rebound

More…

Latest News for 372 le Matin (Betty Blue) (37.2 Degrees in the Morning)

March 4, 2011:

Five Favorite Films with Malin Akerman, Kate Mara and Josh Radnor
It's a three-in-one Five Favorite Film fest today, as we sat down with the stars and writer-director...

View All