Based on a novel by Philippe Dijan, the film is directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix. The storyline is very basic - failed novelist is bunking in a beach hut doing 'arty' stuff. Along comes Betty Blue, who goes her own very peculiar way about getting her lover's novels recognised. Let's just say she's a woman of few inhibitions and we're thrown from sex to slightly sordid to very, very dark. It's a 'classy' film, very dark and well worth watching. Not a Sunday afternoon pink and fluffy film by any stretch of the imagination. Once watched, never forgotten.
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