Betty Blue

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Betty herself was also such an amazing character. Her resilience in the face all she witnessed at such a young age had me astounded. This small girl, had to bear the burden of others and still she was so pure and brave. This has great cinematography with every scene framed to perfection. The dour insides of the French household and the generally dirty oven and sink (usually with two weeks worth of dishes in them.) Very true if you know that part of the world!

Irgendwann wird angedeutet dass Betty abhängig von irgendeinem Schlafmedikament ist aber es wird nie wieder erwähnt The main theme of the strong sense of family bond and loyalty was captured so perfectly. I was teary eyed more than a few times while experiencing the love and comfort these siblings offered each other. This is a heartbreakingly tragic film centred around Betty, (Beatrice Dalle) a beautiful but unstable young woman, whose instability - or madness - becomes progressively worse throughout the film. In the beginning we think she is just an admirably rebellious and fiery person who is over-sensitive to slight and imagined insult. Later she is engulfed by these irrational and self-destructive bouts of hysteria for no perceptible reason. But this happens only occasionally; between times she behaves like a perfectly normal and happy person, as she has every reason to be. It is easy to become impatient with her. She keeps saying she has nothing to live for, that nothing she has ever done has worked out right, but how can this be when she is so much better off than so many millions of others, with beauty, two good friends and a good man who loves her to distraction despite everything? And she loves him in return.The scene in which Betty throws the whole of the fixtures and fittings of the beach apartment out of the window was stolen by a famous car advert (in the UK) and it really is a stretch of the imagination in that Zorg doesn't respond to it. He just paints on and lets her get on with it -- like he doesn't care. Weist du Eddie, sie ist hinter einer Sache her, die nicht existiert. Sie ist wie ein verwundetes Tier und jedesmal fällt sie ein wenig tiefer. Ich glaube die Welt ist zu klein für sie Eddie" s. 282 Growing up in the foothills of the Appalachian mountains, in small town, Breathed, Ohio, which is a character all its own, Betty’s first person narrative is an intimate storytelling. She brings us right into the story, alongside her dear family, and this family? They have a loving father named Landon, a Cherokee storyteller who passes his gift on to Betty (and likewise to Tiffany, the author). Every story he shares is a glorious explanation of the way the world works. This humble, dear, vulnerable, loving father? I don’t think I could love a character more. 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. Betty is a story based on the author’s mother’s life. It’s written in first person with Betty narrating. She shares the earliest history of both her parents, and then takes us through the family’s life as her siblings are born, before and after she is born, and up through the years as she comes-of-age.

Betty’s mother, Alka, has a tormented past, and she has her share of difficulty with mental health as a result. The author writes about this with honesty and openness, while showing how most of the family adapts, supporting one another. There’s such tenderness between many of the characters, such complete devotion. There’s complexity, too, where their human nature comes into play, the push and pull so many families experience in their dynamic. No one is perfect, and Betty, with her insightful narrative doesn’t hide anything from the reader. Betty is bold and strong and completely authentic. Whether there was ever any intention on the part of Jean-Jacques Beineix to make a film about the struggles that women face every day I cannot answer, but he achieved this in the most colourful of ways. Betty Blue ultimately examines a problematic relationship between women’s perceived and experienced madness, demonstrating that style and substance can be inextricably bound—but it shouldn’t be. How Betty dressed, her sexual confidence and her no-nonsense attitude did not make her crazy; it was how she was treated because she dared to be herself that drove her over the edge. Béatrice Dalle was about twenty in the film: in the book Betty is thirty. So this is not a story about young love that can’t be contained in a series of small pathetic provincial French towns. This is more a tale of life-scarred soldiers seeking that elusive something that keeps them bound to the world. Betty finds it through her lover’s novel, the narrator finds it through Betty and his enslavement to her charms (whatever these might be), and throughout, the love between them seems almost entirely one-way, as Betty slides into dementia. 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."However, as Betty becomes more unstable and begins her descent into insanity, this rage is increasingly turned inward into self-punishing and self-mutilating actions. The same intensity that drives her sexuality and her love for Zorg is, ultimately, her downfall. NOTE: I have corrected this review, on 7/21, adding a more accurate explanation of the meaning of the title, and removing my original - and false - explanation. I originally wrote that "37º2 in the Morning" refers to the body temperature of a pregnant woman. Not so.] Lancashire plays Joyce much warmer than Maggie Smith, which in some ways highlights the tonal difference between the show and the film. Anyone who can play a sexy, house-proud Northern matriarch whilst singing big, show-stopping numbers, all the while adding an emotional heart, a dry wit and a beautifully composed showbiz smile, gets my vote! Reece Shearsmith in Betty Blue Eyes. Photo: Roy Tan

Through the years of poverty and struggle in Breathed, Betty witnesses horrors of cruelty and violence. Needing an escape she writes these events down, tells the stories of her family’s dark past and present, and buries it deep in the ground. Anglade is excellent in the challenging role of Zorg, balancing an everyman sensibility with a passion of his own that makes his attachment to Betty - and his return after their various fights - believable. Dalle, meanwhile, gives the performance of a lifetime, creating a heroine by turns as frightening as she is charming, as sexual as she is vulnerable. For all its artistry it's an unusually accurate depiction of mental illness, with dark hints at the external factors that may have contributed to its development. Betty's relationship with her illness is like Zorg's relationship with her; it exhausts her, imperils her, and yet it is a vital part of her. This is a rare portrayal of insanity that doesn't detract from its sufferer's humanity. It's painful. This book hurt so bad. There were times when I just laid it down in my lap with my finger marking the spot where I left off and let myself just have a good cry. Goddamn if the author doesn't just make you fall helplessly in love with the characters. I knew it was dangerous, to let my heart get so emotionally attached, but that's the magic of being an avid reader, isn't it? This classic 1980s French film opens a week after handyman Zorg meets the beautiful nineteen year old Betty. He works restoring beach houses at somewhat rundown resort on the Mediterranean coast. In his spare time he has written a novel; Betty is convinced that it is a work of genius; he isn't so sure. It soon becomes apparent that Betty is more than a little unstable. After one particular incident they move to Paris and Betty types up Zorg's manuscript and starts sending it to publishers... it is clear that they are less impressed with it than she is but Zorg hides the rejection letters to avoid upsetting her. As the film progresses she becomes more and more unstable but Zorg still loves her.Genauso mit seinen Büchern. So schnell wie die „Er-ist-talentierter-Schriftsteller-ohne-Anerkennung“-trope eingeführt wird, wird sie auch wieder vergessen und erst ganz am Ende hört man wieder etwas davon. Béatrice Dalle: "J'ai quasiment frappé tous mes fiancés." ". www.public.fr. 7 July 2013 . Retrieved 29 January 2022. But there was so much stage haze: it was so unrelenting that eventually, the venue’s fire alarm went off mid-song. And what was with Joyce’s sherry? It looked like squash to me, or even worse, urine – no wonder everyone else, including her own husband, refused it when offered. Still, the cast is very good, as is the score and the witty lyrics, and it’s a heart-warming and pleasant show. willst du damit sagen, dieser Sonnenuntergang, der sich an meine Bäume klammert, der gehört mir? Diese Stille und dieser leise Windhauch, der den Hügel runter weht, gehört mir?" S. 225