Word: bettye
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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She is neurotically generous. She is neurotically needy. We all know about people like Betty Blue: in movies, though not necessarily in life, they come to a bad end. Indeed, much of the suspense in this high-fevered melodrama revolves around whether that end will arrive sooner or later, and...
Yet one ends up caring about Betty, because Writer-Director Jean-Jacques Beineix keeps coiling the story of her last months tighter and tighter until the tension is unbearable. Also, Beatrice Dalle as Betty and Jean-Hugues Anglade as Zorg, her bewitched and befuddled lover, bring mesmerizing intensity to their...
The movie begins under false, bright colors at a beach colony where Zorg is the caretaker, and glad enough to have an attractive girl come into his life. The sex here is very naked and bluntly erotic -- a few minutes of careless sex unmediated by commitment or guilt. For a...
In 1982 Beineix attracted 15 minutes of overattention with his emptily stylish Diva. A year later he stubbed his ego on the contumely of critics when his next film, The Moon in the Gutter, was hooted out of the Cannes Film Festival. Both films were arias of adolescent male obsession...
CHIEF OF RESEARCH: Betty Satterwhite Sutter