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Nov 7, 1986 · Betty Blue: Directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix. With Jean-Hugues Anglade, Béatrice Dalle, Gérard Darmon, Consuelo De Haviland. A lackadaisical handyman and aspiring novelist tries to support his younger girlfriend as she slowly succumbs to madness.
One of the punkest actresses of her generation, Béatrice Dalle became an icon of French cinema as soon as she appeared on the screen, in 1986’s Betty Blue [37°2 le matin]. Zoom-interviewed, Paris to Toronto, for our “Karma” issue by Canadian director Bruce LaBruce, Dalle reflects on the many things she and LaBruce have in common (an avid need for liberty, a pronounced taste for the ...
Nov 22, 2019 · In the video above, excerpted from one of several supplements on our new edition of Betty Blue, Dalle herself remembers Beineix and cinematographer Jean-François Robin noticing the way she looked at her own reflection in the camera monitor, and remarking that it was yet another sign of her emergent star qualities.
When the easygoing would-be novelist Zorg (Jean-Hugues Anglade) meets the tempestuous Betty (Béatrice Dalle, in a magnetic breakout performance) in a sunbaked French beach town, it’s the beginning of a whirlwind love affair that sees the pair turn their backs on conventional society in favor of the hedonistic pursuit of freedom, adventure, and carnal pleasure. But as the increasingly ...
A popular French boxoffice attraction who came to international prominence in her film debut as the enticing, impulsive title character of "Betty Blue" (1986), Dalle also starred in Marco ...
