372 le Matin (Betty Blue) (37.2 Degrees in the Morning) Reviews
CinePassion
Flows in a lambent pop style, warm to the touch and scarily intimate
Movie Habit
There can be beauty in tragedy, particularly when the key ingredient is the same in both
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| Original Score: 3/4
Top CriticA playful, meandering, somewhat confusing tale that hangs together as a portrait of demented love.
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| Original Score: 3/4
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Rarely seen in this country in the intervening 23 years, Dalle gives one of the all-time-great performances as Betty.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
It's a passionate love story executed in a dull fashion.
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| Original Score: C+
EmanuelLevy.Com
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.
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| Original Score: A-
NYC Movie Guru
Occasionally drags and meanders, but it boasts an impressive visual style and a radiant, charismatic performance by the ultra-sexy Béatrice Dalle.
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| Original Score: 7.0/10
Slant Magazine
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.
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| Original Score: 3/4
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.
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| Original Score: 4/6
Curvy, ripe Dalle, only 21 at the time and in her first screen role, completely commits to the part.
TV Guide's Movie Guide
The best thing about the film is the pouty, 21-year-old Dalle.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Empire Magazine
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.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Film4
Beineix's film is awash with the humour and cool of his debut, Diva, but lacks the cohesion to sustain its weighty ambition.
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.
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.
Filmcritic.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
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Spirituality and Practice
Centers on the difficulties of living with a sexually free spirit.
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| Original Score: 3/5
If Betty Blue teaches us anything -- and there's a good chance it doesn't -- it's that life is full of little mysteries.
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| Original Score: 2/5
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.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
