Fresh
A playful, meandering, somewhat confusing tale that hangs together as a portrait of demented love.
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Overview
A lackadaisical handyman and aspiring novelist tries to support his younger girlfriend as she slowly succumbs to madness.
Director and cast
- Jean-Jacques Beineix Director
- Jean-Hugues Anglade as Zorg
- Béatrice Dalle as Betty
- Gérard Darmon as Eddy
- Consuelo De Haviland as Lisa
- Vincent Lindon as Richard le jeune policier
- Dominique Besnehard as Le client de la pizzeria
- Jacques Mathou as Bob
- Clémentine Célarié as Annie
- Catherine D'At Cast
- Claude Aufaure as Le médecin
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
78%
Tomatometer
Fresh
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.
Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York
Fresh
Curvy, ripe Dalle, only 21 at the time and in her first screen role, completely commits to the part.
Melissa Anderson, Village Voice
Fresh
The movie was colorful and swirling and oppressive all at once, and in 1991, Beineix recut it not to slim it down but to add a florid third hour.
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture
Fresh
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.
Variety Staff, Variety
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