Betty Blue

4.00
    Betty Blue
    1986

    Synopsis

    A lackadaisical handyman and aspiring novelist tries to support his younger girlfriend as she slowly succumbs to madness.

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    Cast

    • Jean-Hugues AngladeZorg
    • Béatrice DalleBetty
    • Gérard DarmonEddy
    • Consuelo De HavilandLisa
    • Clémentine CélariéAnnie
    • Jacques MathouBob
    • Vincent LindonRichard, the Young Policeman
    • Catherine D'AtPizzeria Customer
    • Claude AufaureDoctor
    • Louis BellantiMario

    Recommendations

    • 100

      CineVue

      Betty Blue, in either of its forms – whether it be the 121-minute theatrical version or the 185-minute director’s cut – takes a bad situation and makes it true-blue and beautiful.
    • 75

      Slant Magazine

      If only Beineix could have imagined an existence for his star-crossed protagonists beyond the source material (the question of whether successful maternity would have sobered Betty yelps for an impossible sequel), he may have managed a sultry masterpiece.
    • 70

      Washington Post

      Like Zorg, we are bedazzled by Betty's bright eyes, big moue and wild child's ways.
    • 70

      Variety

      Director Jean-Jacques Beineix has adapted a novel by Philippe Djian, considered an enfant terrible of the new literary generation. It's another feverish tale of amour fou.
    • 60

      Washington Post

      An extraordinarily sensual movie with its own silly integrity.
    • 60

      TV Guide Magazine

      An inconsistent and unsatisfying tale of amour fou and literary ambition.
    • 50

      Slant Magazine

      Indeed, the film flies by and feels weightless, like a spectacular rainbow-colored hydrogen balloon that passes out of our memory the moment we lose sight of it.
    • 40

      Chicago Reader

      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.

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