- Betty Blue
:otheruses4|the film|the model|Betty Blue (model)Infobox Film
name = Betty Blue
caption = French-language film poster
director =Jean-Jacques Beineix
producer = Jean-Jacques Beineix
writer =Philippe Djian (novel)
Jean-Jacques Beineix
starring =Jean-Hugues Anglade Béatrice Dalle Vincent Lindon Dominique Pinon
music =Gabriel Yared
cinematography = Jean-François Robin
editing = Monique Prim
distributor =Alive Films
released =November 7 1986
runtime = 120 min; 185 min (director's cut)
language = French
budget =
imdb_id = 0090563"Betty Blue" is a 1986 French film. Its original French title is "37°2 le matin", which means "37°C [99°F] , 2 in the Morning" . The film was directed by
Jean-Jacques Beineix and starsBéatrice Dalle as Betty. It is based on the 1985 novel of the same name byPhilippe Djian .The film received both a BAFTA and Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film in 1986, as well as winning a
César Award for Best Poster. In 1992 it was awarded the Golden space Needle of theSeattle International Film Festival .Plot Summary
Betty (Dalle) and Zorg (Anglade) are passionate lovers who live in a shack on the beach. He works as a handyman who does odd jobs to pay the bills. As the film begins, they have only been going out for a week and are in a very passionate stage of their relationship. Zorg narrates the story of their relationship via voiceover. He describes Betty, “like a flower with translucent antennae and a mauve plastic heart.” She yearns for a better life and quit her last job as a waitress because she was being sexually harassed by her boss.
Zorg’s boss asks him to paint the 500 shacks that populate the beach — a fact that he keeps from Betty who thinks they only have to do one. She attacks the project with enthusiasm that quickly turns to anger once she learns the actual number. In response, Betty covers the boss’ car with pink paint.
During a nasty fight, Betty accidentally discovers a series of notebooks that contain a novel Zorg wrote years ago. She reads it and falls in love with him even more. She then makes it her mission in life to type every hand-written page and get it published. Betty's freespiritedness and devotion to Zorg develop into alarming obsession, aggression and destructiveness, and the film alternates between comic and tragic modes.
Cast
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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
*Jean-Pierre Bisson - The "commissaire" (in the complete version)
*Dominique Pinon - The drug dealer (in the complete version)
*Bernard Hug - (in the complete version)
*Catherine D'At -
*Claude Aufaure - The doctor
*Louis Bellanti - Mario
*Dominique Besnehard - Client in pizzeria
*Raoul Billerey - The old policemanExternal links
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* [http://zenbullets.com/blog/?p=87 Philippe Djian vs Betty Blue]
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