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Betty Blue
Directed by
Jean-Jacques Beineix
Not Rated
1986
2h
Drama
,
Romance
7.3
78%
90%
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A lackadaisical handyman and aspiring novelist tries to support his younger girlfriend as she slowly succumbs to madness.
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Cast of Betty Blue
Jean-Hugues Anglade
Zorg
Béatrice Dalle
Betty
Gérard Darmon
Eddy
Consuelo De Haviland
Lisa
Clémentine Célarié
Annie
Jacques Mathou
Bob
Vincent Lindon
Richard, the Young Policeman
Catherine D'At
Pizzeria Customer
Claude Aufaure
Doctor
Louis Bellanti
Mario
Dominique Besnehard
Pizzeria Customer
Raoul Billerey
The Old Policeman
Nathalie Dalyan
Maria
Nicolas Jalowyj
Little Nicolas
André Julien
Old Georges
Daniel Millot
Marthe Moudiki-Moreau
Robin Bernard
Second Tenant
Claude Confortès
Owner of the Bungalows
Philippe Laudenbach
Editor
Léonie Berthuit
Death
Frédéric Caratini
Archie
Raymond Julien
Dead Old Man
Jacky Galibert
Muscular Nurse
Simon de La Brosse
Dominique Pinon
Surfer
Betty Blue Ratings & Reviews
New York Times
Janet Maslin
If Betty Blue teaches us anything -- and there's a good chance it doesn't -- it's that life is full of little mysteries.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
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.
Movie Habit
Marty Mapes
There can be beauty in tragedy, particularly when the key ingredient is the same in both
Slant Magazine
Joseph Jon Lanthier
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.
IONCINEMA.com
Nicholas Bell
From carnivalesque fantasy on the seaside town of Gruissan, to the idyll of communal living in Paris, to the tragic finale in the sleepy town of Marvejols, Betty Blue is an incredibly intimate love story.
The Lens
Andrew Wyatt
Betty Blue evinces a filmmaker with a profound understanding of desire: The mysteries of its creation and sustenance, as well as the irrational choices it can induce us to make.
ColeSmithey.com
Cole Smithey
Devastating.
Village Voice
Melissa Anderson
Curvy, ripe Dalle, only 21 at the time and in her first screen role, completely commits to the part.
New York Magazine/Vulture
David Edelstein
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.
Variety
Variety Staff
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.
Washington Post
Paul Attanasio
If Dalle finds with remarkable clarity the one note that her role calls for -- the petulant volcano -- she can't support the existential weight Beineix wants to drop on her.
Chicago Reader
Peter Keough
Perhaps what is least satisfying about Beineix' effort is its implied theme -- that women are mere muses to be addled, suffocated, and sacrificed to revitalize the imaginations of men.
Washington Post
Rita Kempley
Like Zorg, we are bedazzled by Betty's bright eyes, big moue and wild child's ways.
CinePassion
Fernando F. Croce
Flows in a lambent pop style, warm to the touch and scarily intimate
Spirituality & Practice
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Centers on the difficulties of living with a sexually free spirit.
Filmcritic.com
Christopher Null
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
TV Guide
The best thing about the film is the pouty, 21-year-old Dalle.
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Betty Blue (US Trailer)
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Betty Blue (International Trailer)
Betty Blue (International Trailer)
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The Director's Cut (Betty Shows Up On Zorg's Doorstep)
The Director's Cut (Betty Shows Up On Zorg's Doorstep)
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The Director's Cut (Betty Throws Paint On The Boss' Car)
The Director's Cut (Betty Throws Paint On The Boss' Car)
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The Director's Cut (Zorg Arrives Home To Find Betty Gone)
The Director's Cut (Zorg Arrives Home To Find Betty Gone)
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The Director's Cut (Zorg And Betty Joyride In A Yellow Car)
The Director's Cut (Zorg And Betty Joyride In A Yellow Car)
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The Director's Cut (Zorg Finds Betty Crying In A Cementery)
The Director's Cut (Zorg Finds Betty Crying In A Cementery)
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The Director's Cut (Betty Is Pregnant And Zorg Brings Home Gifts)
The Director's Cut (Betty Is Pregnant And Zorg Brings Home Gifts)
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