BETTY BLUE - DVD-CRITERION COLLECTION

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• Release Year: 1986
• Genre: Drama, Romance
• Plot: 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 erratic Betty’s grip on reality begins to falter, Zorg finds himself willing to do things he never expected to protect both her fragile sanity and their tenuous existence together. Adapted from the hit novel 37°2 le matin by Philippe Djian, Jean-Jacques Beineix’s art-house smash—presented here in its extended director’s cut—is a sexy, crazy, careening joyride of a romance that burns with the passion and beyond-reason fervor of all-consuming love.
• Cast: Jean-Hugues Anglade, Béatrice Dalle, Gérard Darmon, Consuelo De Haviland, Clémentine Célarié, Jacques Mathou, Vincent Lindon, Jean-Pierre Bisson, Dominique Pinon, Bernard Hug, Claude Aufaure, Louis Bellanti, Dominique Besnehard, Raoul Billerey, Nathalie Dalyan, Nicolas Jalowyj, André Julien, Robyn Bernard, Claude Confortès, Philippe Laudenbach, Leonie Berthuit, Frédéric Caratini, Raymond Julien, Jacky Galibert, Fabien Béhar, Simon de La Brosse, Franck-Olivier Bonnet, Eugène Berthier, Christine Datnowsky, Claude Duneton, Jessica Forde, Rabah Loucif, Bernadette Palas, Laurence Renn, Stéphane Verbiest, Jean-Jacques Beineix, Philippe Djian
• Director: Jean-Jacques Beineix
• Runtime: 3:04
• Company: The Criterion Collection, Janus Films, Gaumont, INA
• Media Format: Movie