Betty Blue (Blu-ray)

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  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region A
  • Released: November 19, 2019
  • Originally Released: 1986
  • Label: Criterion Collection

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User Ratings: 14,467
Rating: 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
EmanuelLevy.Com
Jun 20, 2009
Rating: 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.
Time Out
Jun 10, 2009
Curvy, ripe Dalle, only 21 at the time and in her first screen role, completely commits to the part. Full Review
Village Voice
Jun 10, 2009
Rating: 1.5/4 -- 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. Full Review
Chicago Sun-Times
Oct 2, 2002
Rating: 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
NYC Movie Guru
Jun 18, 2009
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
Variety
Mar 26, 2009
Rating: C+ -- It's a passionate love story executed in a dull fashion. Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Jun 26, 2009

Product Description:

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 in his mid-thirties who lives a relatively dull life in a remote, weathered shack until he meets Betty, a sexy, mercurial younger woman who challenges his way of thinking and forces him to change his life. When Betty and Zorg are not having wild and uninhibited sex (and joyously traipsing around naked), Zorg is writing his novel, an unpublished masterwork that Betty discovers and vehemently champions. Betty, prone to violent fits of passionate rage, attacks Zorg's boss and burns their shack down, leaving Zorg no choice but to join her on a series of spirited adventures. They move in with Betty's best friend and her boyfriend and for a brief time live a happy bohemian lifestyle, wild and crazy in love. But as the film progresses, Betty's mental illness becomes more apparent, she lives in a fitful manic world of passionate highs and lows while Zorg desperately attempts to coddle and comfort her. Finally, the lovers start over in a dreamy rural town, hoping to live a normal life, but Betty's fantasy world encroaches on her reality as she slowly spirals out of control in this intense story of love and lust, based on the novel by Philippe Djian.

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  • UPC: 715515237512
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