Betty Blue

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I don’t know if it’s because this book was more personal to the author or what? — but the way she wrote the setting and the characters was spectacular. It all felt so real and the characters each felt so distinct.

We follow the family from the 1930s — the moment Landon and Alka meet — until Betty, their youngest daughter enters adulthood. There are moments when the narrative becomes so soppy and sentimental that I came close to being grateful for Inspector Wormold (David Pendlebury), the antagonistic official on a mission to ensure rationing regulations were adhered to and the stiffest possible penalties applied to anyone who fell foul of the rules. Especially – and this is where I really did agree with him – if the miscreants were town council executives who only looked after their own interests. As well as providing a narrative that may be read and interpreted on several levels, _Betty Blue_ is an exceptionally beautiful film in terms of cinematography and mise en scene. Colour is used to breathtaking effect - the blue floors of the piano shop, the yellow car, the yellow lighting which makes it seem as though, regardless of time, it's always afternoon twilight. Landscapes, city scenes, interiors are all set up and filmed beautifully. Nichts auf der Welt kannte ich besser als Betty. Ich kannte sie so gut, dass ich mir nicht immer sicher war, ob sie die Lippen bewegte, wenn ich hörte, dass sie mit mir sprach " s. 334The film received both a BAFTA and Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film in 1986. [8] [9] Plot [ edit ] I remember the fierce love and devotion as much as I remember the violence." "our family tree grew with rotten, broken branches and fungus on the leaves." Some characters I hated with all my guts (if you know, you know 👀). And others I loved with all my heart: first and foremost being Landon, Betty’s dad. We leave him alone in his kitchen about to start a new novel, a novel that she will never see, leading to a success and prosperity she will have no share in. My God isn't that sad? "What might have been." the saddest words in the English language. Charisma to Burn: Béatrice Dalle's Incandescent Debut in Betty Blue|The Current|The Criterion Collection

i enjoyed The Summer that Melted Everything a bunch, but Betty; a standalone with spillover into TSTME, has so much more weight. i remember bits and pieces from The Summer that Melted Everything—i remember the language being striking, i remember the framework and a few details in particular, but this one is going to stay in my brain for a lot longer, and there are specific scenes i know are with me for life; not as fond memories of a book i enjoyed, but as straight-up reader scars. in any event—i don’t know what is hand-on-bible truth here, or what has been inflated for dramatic effect, but even if everything in this book was conjured up out of the clear blue sky, day after day this world reminds us it is full of horrorshows and people who have survived things others are too lily-livered to even read about. and that, to me, seems insensitive. Thrusting towards Zorg and Betty's embrace in the opening shot, writer/directing auteur Jean-Jacques Beineix & cinematographer Jean-Francois Robin build upon the Cinéma Du Look stylisation Beineix had brushed with on Diva (1981),by drawing it towards a thoughtful, melancholy tone, dripping in mellow yellow swirling round Betty and Zorg's romance with dabs of blue, which increasingly becomes colder and the dominating colour, as Betty's outlook turns blue. Magical and moving Cherokee myths & legends: deeply touching tales a father, (Landon), passes on to Betty... Betty deli dolu bir kadın. Biraz melankolik biraz da takıntılı bir karakter. Romanı onun sevgilisinin gözünden birinci tekil şahıs olarak okuyoruz ve hayatımıza yavaş yavaş dahil oluyor Betty, onu tanımaya başlıyoruz. Daha ilk sayfalarda farklı olduğu anlaşılıyor. Hayatı herkesin normal kabul ettiği standartlardan biraz farklı yaşıyor, olaylara bakışı da hayatı yaşayışı gibi bi değişik. Hayatı bir fırsat, gerçekten yaşanması gereken bir tecrübe olarak görüyor. Belki de bu yüzden hayalkırıklıklarına uğruyor, bu da onu melankoliye boğuyor zaman zaman. Sevgilisiyle arasındaki aşk ve tutku da roman boyunca bize eşlik ediyor. Öğrendiğimiz kadarıyla Betty güzel bir kadın, bu da onu arzulanır kılıyor, aynı zamanda ayak uydurulması gereken biri olma ayrıcalığına sahip oluyor Betty bu güzelliği yüzünden. Doğruluğunu savunamam elbette ama güzel kadınların ve hatta adamların hayatta diğerlerine göre torpilli olduğu gerçeğini hepimiz kabul ederiz herhalde, toplumun güzel insanlara karşı bir zaafı olduğu yalan değil. Betty'nin de acayiplikleri, zaman zaman şiddete varan delilikleri sevgilisi tarafından sineye çekiliyor roman boyunca. Malum o kadar güzel ki bunları yapmaya hakkı var..If you’re thinking of visiting this show, bear in mind that it’s not supposed to be a modern, commercial, appealling to the mindless masses kind of show. It is a traditional book based musical. An excellent example of one at that. Zorg (Jean-Hughes Anglalde) is an aspiring novelist with a novel in manuscript he has given up all hope of ever seeing published. But she believes in him and, using only two fingers, types out the manuscript with painful slowness, and, with an heroic persistence, continues sending it out to the publishers despite receiving a steady stream of rejection slips. And here-in lies the tragedy ; at the end of the film, when she is dead to the world and past caring, her efforts bear fruit and the manuscript is accepted. How happy knowing this would have made her. But too late. There's a reason there is so much chemistry between these two.. they made a massive film together full of a complex love and it's wonderful to watch the way the director intended.. It would be better if they offered both versions for discussion. I would love to see a very talented editor get his hands on this film, just for fun. Those who cannot watch a whole show, or those who believe the overall cost of a production should dictate its merit (despite reports that the show cost between 2.5 and 3.5 million pounds to produce), cannot really make an informed opinion. The famous Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun Times gives this low marks -- citing too much flesh being on display (among other faults) -- and this is sad given that he gave Kill Bill Part One top marks. A woman making love to a man she is in passionately in love with is tasteless -- a homicidal woman slicing the arms of a whole room of gangsters is OK?