Betty Blue

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One thing I particularly liked was what I call the folding.The movie is based on an incompetent book and the story features an incompetent writer who turns that book into the lovely thing we see. And he does so in the fashion of "Moulin Rouge" and "Lolita" by largely making it up, or effectively so. He is an untrustable narrator. Betty may never have existed, or only existed partly. Or she may have existed and with her lover/writer created a new story. (I said it was intimate.) 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. mi rimettevo a guardare quella donna a pochi metri da me ed era la cosa più importante della mia vita"

When I was a mere 5% into this book, I fretted about not wanting it to end. This book is THAT good. The characters are living, breathing, loving, and endearing. They go through the darkest and most unsettling of times, and I was with them for every bit of this journey I never wanted to end. Over the course of the movie, which is quite long (I saw the 178 minute director's cut), Zorg goes to increasingly frantic lengths both to please Betty and to protect her from herself. In this regard, certainly, Betty and Zorg are almost identical, both going to extremes, in their own ways, to defend their relationship from outside interference. It still has a severely flawed ending, but the trip is wonderful. Cinematic love, a relationship born right. Two actors and a director who understand. this book is sad. it is SAD. it is beautiful and broken and filled with tenderness and love and cruelty and neglect and it is SEARING. i cannot emphasize enough that, like life, it is a mixture of sad and lovely. although, also like life, for every sad you see coming, there’ll be two that’ll catch you off guard. goodreads ме заслепи. Писане, типично за 70-те и 80-те, не много екшън, тук-таме където екшън, не е кой знае какъв.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. 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! We follow the family from the 1930s — the moment Landon and Alka meet — until Betty, their youngest daughter enters adulthood. Indeed, hardly anybody seems normal in this show, and you’d be forgiven for thinking something was in the water. This isn’t problematic in itself: after all, eccentric characters are more interesting than plain ones. But it poses a challenge for this production – it’s an ambitious one, with nineteen members of the company plus three musicians – because, in such a small space, it’s easy to overdo exaggerated characters and make them overly hammy. Thankfully, the show strikes a balance between playing to the gallery and recognising the intimacy of the performance space. Kasper Cornish’s choreography is remarkable, with the big ensemble numbers involving song-and-dance with very tight turnaround spaces for the actors.

Bir karakerin adı verilmiş romanlar beklentimi artırıyor. Romana adını verebilecek kadar sıra dışı birinin hikayesini okuyacağım beklentisini yaratıyor ister istemez. Betty Blue'nun hakkını teslim etmem lazım, bu beklentimi karşıladı hatta aştı diyebilirim. A 185-minute director's cut debuted in 2000 with the extra hour allowing Betty's descent into madness to take up more space and her pursuit of motherhood to get more screen time. Zorg's character is explored with several solo vignettes, including his cross-dressing crime spree. 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 The bastard child of the French new wave and Eighties post-punk sensibilities, Betty Blue is a love story whose narrative is almost incidental as it appeals directly to the senses. It's the story of handyman and would-be author Zorg (Jean-Hugues Anglade) and his tempestuous relationship with Betty (Béatrice Dalle), a woman who experiences the world with an immediacy and passion that gradually spills over into madness. As Betty's violent outbursts grow more frequent and her connection to the world more fragile, she carries Zorg with her on a journey outside the framework of ordinary life, becoming his muse and threatening his destruction.

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A girl comes of age against the knife. She must learn to bear its blade. To be cut. To bleed. To scar over and still,

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. 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?Irgendwann wird angedeutet dass Betty abhängig von irgendeinem Schlafmedikament ist aber es wird nie wieder erwähnt The leads are mostly mis-cast and cannot sing a note(a fairly standard requirement in a musical) Only Sarah Lancashire comes out unscathed though her pantomime dame Maggie Smith wears thin after a while. Poor Reece Shearsmith is just not up to the job, far too weak. Adrian Scarborough plays his role like all others hamming it up and acting like he feels he is much better than he actually is. The weakest is the Mother, nothing like the character is written, supposed to be 84 and doddery (played famously by Liz Smith in the film), this performance does not work on any level. And when there is no reward? That’s when things start to look very dark. You start strong; you power through every day with optimism. When that day ends without accomplishment, you hold on for tomorrow. Tomorrow comes, and the story repeats itself. Slowly you begin to unravel. Disappointment leads to tunnel vision; the ‘thing’ becomes the only thing on your mind. It is a disease, and it is all that is important. You ask yourself, “how do I succeed?”“What am I doing wrong?”“Why am I being punished?” You neglect the good people around you and fail to see the joy in what you already have. Betty absorbed this more strongly than most. After sending Zorg’s manuscript to every publisher in town, she waits patiently for the moment of reward to come. Day after day. Nothing.