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10/18/09
Betty Blue (1986)
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Reviews Counted:24
Fresh:18
Rotten:6
Average Rating:6.4/10
Runtime: 3 hrs 5 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: A shocking and offbeat story of two French lovers, Zorg (Jean-Hugues Anglade) and Betty (Beatrice Dalle), who fall into a deeply erotic and all-encompassing relationship. Zorg is a simple repairman... [More]
Starring: Beatrice Dalle, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Gerard Darmon, Clementine Celarie
Director: Jean-Jacques Beineix
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Reviews for Betty Blue
A playful, meandering, somewhat confusing tale that hangs together as a portrait of demented love.
07/24/09
Top CriticRarely seen in this country in the intervening 23 years, Dalle gives one of the all-time-great performances as Betty.
07/24/09
It's a passionate love story executed in a dull fashion.
06/26/09
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.
06/20/09
Occasionally drags and meanders, but it boasts an impressive visual style and a radiant, charismatic performance by the ultra-sexy Béatrice Dalle.
06/17/09
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.
06/10/09
Curvy, ripe Dalle, only 21 at the time and in her first screen role, completely commits to the part.
06/10/09
Top CriticThe best thing about the film is the pouty, 21-year-old Dalle.
06/08/09
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.
06/08/09
Beineix's film is awash with the humour and cool of his debut, Diva, but lacks the cohesion to sustain its weighty ambition.
06/08/09
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.
06/08/09
Top CriticDalle, 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.
03/26/09
Top CriticDevastating.
10/25/07
No review available.
01/17/05
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
10/29/04
Centers on the difficulties of living with a sexually free spirit.
08/26/04
No review available.
07/02/04
No review available.
05/23/04
If Betty Blue teaches us anything -- and there's a good chance it doesn't -- it's that life is full of little mysteries.
05/20/03
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