Betty Blue - Director's Cut [1986] [DVD]

Aluekooditon Director's Cut julkaisu, ei suomitekstejä. Tekstit englanniksi. 

Zorg is a handyman working at the seaside in France, maintaining and looking after the wooden bungalows. He lives a quiet and peaceful life, working diligently and writing in his spare time. He is in love with Betty, a young woman who is as beautiful as she is wild and unpredictable. After a dispute with Zorg's boss, they leave and Betty finds a place to stay at her girlfriend's house. The girlfriend's lover owns an Italian restaurant and there they find a job. She is obsessed to try to get one of Zorg's books published, but it is rejected, which makes Betty fly into a rage. Suddenly, Betty's wild manners start to get out of control. Zorg sees the woman he loves slowly going insane. Is his love for Betty strong enough, if even if it comes to the worst?

• Director ? : ? Jean Jacques Beineix
• Actors ? : ? Beatrice Dalle, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Gerard Darmon, Consuelo De Havilland, Clémentine Célarié

Jean-Jacques Beineix directs this French drama starring Beatrice Dalle and Jean-Hughes Anglade. Betty (Dalle) and Zorg (Anglade) have a passionate, if somewhat unconventional, relationship. When Betty discovers Zorg's half-written novel she burns his house down and forces him to go to Paris with her in search of fame. There they team up with another couple, who own a pizza restaurant, before continuing their journey south, where Betty begins her tragic demise into madness and eventual death.

Amazon.co.uk Review

Sex and sunlight are on ample display in Betty Blue, director Jean-Jacques Beineix's passionate look at mad love. (Every French director is contractually required to make at least one movie about l'amour fou.)

It begins at the seashore, where handyman and failed novelist Zorg (Jean-Hugues Anglade) has his life electrified by Betty, a woman whose sense of abandon frequently tips over into the pathological. This was the role that introduced gap-toothed, voluptuous Beatrice Dalle to the world, and neither Dalle nor the world has ever quite recovered. Traces of Beineix's precious Diva are still present, though this is a darker and more memorable ride, especially in the three-hour "version integrale" that restores an hour of footage. Its copious nude scenes are a drawing card, but stick around for the age-old alchemy of life translated into art. Gabriel Yared's score is a favourite of movie-soundtrack mavens, especially its haunting piano theme.-- Robert Horton

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