Betty Blue (1986)
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Reviews Counted:25
Fresh:19
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
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Flows in a lambent pop style, warm to the touch and scarily intimate Full Review |
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3/4 |
There can be beauty in tragedy, particularly when the key ingredient is the same in both Full Review |
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3/4 |
A playful, meandering, somewhat confusing tale that hangs together as a portrait of demented love. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
Rarely seen in this country in the intervening 23 years, Dalle gives one of the all-time-great performances as Betty. Full Review |
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It's a passionate love story executed in a dull fashion. Full Review |
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A- |
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. Full Review |
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7.0/10 |
Occasionally drags and meanders, but it boasts an impressive visual style and a radiant, charismatic performance by the ultra-sexy Béatrice Dalle. Full Review |
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4/6 |
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. Full Review |
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Curvy, ripe Dalle, only 21 at the time and in her first screen role, completely commits to the part. Full Review |
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3/4 |
The best thing about the film is the pouty, 21-year-old Dalle. Full Review |
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4/5 |
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. Full Review |
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Beineix's film is awash with the humour and cool of his debut, Diva, but lacks the cohesion to sustain its weighty ambition. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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4/5 |
Devastating.
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3/5 |
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3.5/5 |
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 Full Review |
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3/5 |
Centers on the difficulties of living with a sexually free spirit. Full Review |
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4/5 |
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3/5 |
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