Betty Blue

Betty Blue is a 1986 French film. Its original French title is 37le matin, meaning 37.2C in the morning. The film was directed by JeanJacques Beineix and stars Batrice Dalle and JeanHugues Anglade. It is based on the 1985 novel of the same name by Philippe Djian. The film had 3,632,326 admissions and was the eighth highest grossing film of the year in France.

Zorg JeanHugues Anglade is a 34yearold failed writer, now making a living as a handyman for a community of beach houses at Gruissan. He meets Betty Batrice Dalle, a volatile and impulsive young woman, and the two begin a passionate affair, living in his shack on the beach. After a row with him, she finds the manuscript of a novel he once wrote and decides he is a genius. However, after another argument with his boss, she empties the shack and burns it down. The two decamp to the outskirts of Paris, where her friend Lisa Consuelo de Haviland has a small hotel. There they find work in the pizzeria of Lisas friend Eddy Grard Darmon, but a fight erupts in which Betty stabs a customer with a fork. Back at the hotel, she laboriously types out Zorgs novel and submits it to various publishers. Though Zorg hides the rejection letters she finds one and, going to the publishers house, slashes his face. Zorg induces him to drop charges.Eddys mother dies and the friends go to the funeral in Marvejols. There, Eddy asks Zorg and Betty if they will live in the dead womans house and look after her piano shop. Zorg enjoys the quiet provincial life and makes friends with the grocer Bob Jacques Mathou and his sexstarved wife Annie Clmentine Clari, but Betty is unhappy. One day Zorg finds a collection of pills she is taking and, during a row, she punches out a window. Happiness seems on the horizon when a home test suggests Betty is pregnant, but a lab test is negative and she sinks into depression. ........

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