Betty Blue

simplicity · 04-27-2006, 12:49 PM

Got to be the best foreign film I've ever seen. A bit 'old' now - but still a great in my book!

simplicity

raettopia · 04-27-2006, 01:35 PM

I've never heard of it. Who directed it? What is it about?

simplicity · 04-28-2006, 03:10 PM

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.

raettopia · 04-28-2006, 05:44 PM

It sounds really interesting. Thanks for the detailed synopsis. I'll try and check it out soon.

04-27-2006, 12:49 PM	#1
simplicity Junior Member Registered User Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 15	Betty Blue Got to be the best foreign film I've ever seen. A bit 'old' now - but still a great in my book! simplicity

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04-27-2006, 01:35 PM	#2
raettopia Senior Member Active User Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 164	I've never heard of it. Who directed it? What is it about?

04-28-2006, 03:10 PM	#3
simplicity Junior Member Registered User Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 15	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.

04-28-2006, 05:44 PM	#4
raettopia Senior Member Active User Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 164	It sounds really interesting. Thanks for the detailed synopsis. I'll try and check it out soon.