Betty Blue

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We share the most up to date music news for indie, alternative, underground and underheard bands and artists from across the planet. Keep an ear out for what you’re favourites are up to. I understand this way of thinking so clearly. It may be that her opinion of herself was so low that she had to find hope in someone else, which, of course, isn’t healthy. But she does it out of love just as much. I remember buying my ex a computer so he could learn Computer-Aided Design. His dream was to make video games. He’s now a manager at Xbox in Seattle. While we split a long, long time ago, I still feel so good about this. It makes you feel a little like an angel when you do things that help steer people down a path of success. It is not about the credit; it’s pride—the joy of watching from the sidelines. Other people’s achievement can be a reward.

You’d be forgiven for thinking Betty Blue is a strange choice as an inspirational feminist film for me. Betty Blue famously opens with an explicit, full-length sex scene, which probably wasn’t staged as the two main actors: Beatrice Dalle and Jean-Hughes Anglade were in a relationship at the time of filming. It is possibly a surprise that the character of Betty (Blue)—and indeed Beatrice Dalle herself—would inspire me as a woman in a way not wholly related to her sexual allure. As that is what Betty was painted to be on the surface—and what the film became notorious for—she was a sex object, a poster girl for teenage boys with a little Je ne sais quoi about them. But dip your toes in the water, and you will see that this film is a spectacle of beauty, passion, and obsession—ending with madness and sadness. Charisma to Burn: Béatrice Dalle's Incandescent Debut in Betty Blue|The Current|The Criterion Collection In music, a "blue note" is a note which departs from the expected major scale and instead goes minor (flat). You've heard it a million times in blues or jazz; it's "that note" that makes you go "oooooooh". In the film "Betty Blue", a meticulously crafted, deeply symbolic, allegorical tale of passion and madness, there's a wonderful scene where the 2 main characters slip away from a funeral wake in the middle of the night, find a room of pianos and play an impromptu duet. In this scene, the man and stable component of the relationship, Zorg, plays a chord progression while Betty, the volatile component, comes in with a simple melody hitting that powerful blue note. 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.To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life." E questa frustrazione, questa insufficienza della vita, la portano a compiere gesti dapprima sopra le righe, poi completamente folli. Trascinando in caduta verticale pure chi la ama in maniera incondizionata. Another film favorite that was programmed on the Los Angeles Based Z Channel, this was one that I kinda remembered, but had forgotten - basically because of its sadness, and because it was shown in its original language with subtitles. At that time, original foreign films shown in subtitles aren't usually tops on the list of young movie watchers at the time. So I had the opportunity to watch the 3 hour movie recently again, older, wiser and much more interested, and I'm glad I did. I remembered it. This is...a good film. Better impacted in the 80's before we all knew what we know now, but it still does holds up. Betty deli dolu bir kadın. Biraz melankolik biraz da takıntılı bir karakter. Romanı onun sevgilisinin gözünden birinci tekil şahıs olarak okuyoruz ve hayatımıza yavaş yavaş dahil oluyor Betty, onu tanımaya başlıyoruz. Daha ilk sayfalarda farklı olduğu anlaşılıyor. Hayatı herkesin normal kabul ettiği standartlardan biraz farklı yaşıyor, olaylara bakışı da hayatı yaşayışı gibi bi değişik. Hayatı bir fırsat, gerçekten yaşanması gereken bir tecrübe olarak görüyor. Belki de bu yüzden hayalkırıklıklarına uğruyor, bu da onu melankoliye boğuyor zaman zaman. Sevgilisiyle arasındaki aşk ve tutku da roman boyunca bize eşlik ediyor. Öğrendiğimiz kadarıyla Betty güzel bir kadın, bu da onu arzulanır kılıyor, aynı zamanda ayak uydurulması gereken biri olma ayrıcalığına sahip oluyor Betty bu güzelliği yüzünden. Doğruluğunu savunamam elbette ama güzel kadınların ve hatta adamların hayatta diğerlerine göre torpilli olduğu gerçeğini hepimiz kabul ederiz herhalde, toplumun güzel insanlara karşı bir zaafı olduğu yalan değil. Betty'nin de acayiplikleri, zaman zaman şiddete varan delilikleri sevgilisi tarafından sineye çekiliyor roman boyunca. Malum o kadar güzel ki bunları yapmaya hakkı var.. Un romanzo crudo, violento, che assume a tratti i connotati del thriller. Stupefacente il lirismo di alcuni passaggi

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 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. Based on the Handmade film ‘A Private Function’ and the original story by Alan Bennett and Malcom Mowbray. There are moments when the narrative becomes so soppy and sentimental that I came close to being grateful for Inspector Wormold (David Pendlebury), the antagonistic official on a mission to ensure rationing regulations were adhered to and the stiffest possible penalties applied to anyone who fell foul of the rules. Especially – and this is where I really did agree with him – if the miscreants were town council executives who only looked after their own interests.

Filmmakers and audiences alike inexorably gravitate toward tales of romantic obsession, yet it's rare to see one depicted with the same spirit its heroine embodies. Betty Blue is a film that hurls itself into being, brash and unbridled and now. It has its long, slow, dreamy moments, yet these two are more poetry than prose; there seems to be nothing here that is calculated or rationalised, so the story feels very natural despite its extremes.

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. in any event—i don’t know what is hand-on-bible truth here, or what has been inflated for dramatic effect, but even if everything in this book was conjured up out of the clear blue sky, day after day this world reminds us it is full of horrorshows and people who have survived things others are too lily-livered to even read about. and that, to me, seems insensitive. mi rimettevo a guardare quella donna a pochi metri da me ed era la cosa più importante della mia vita" We don’t care if they’re already big in Japan or if they’ve only made one recording so far. Even if you’ve just heard Nirvana for the first time and think other’s should listen, we welcome your recommendations about who to listen to. 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.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. But it’s the musical numbers by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe that go much further than the book in rounding out the themes of the show, without ever losing sight of the “let’s have fun” element which is writ large throughout this production. But despite the hardship she faces, Betty is resilient. Her curiosity about the natural world, her fierce love for her sisters, and her father's brilliant stories are kindling for the fire of her own imagination, and in the face of all she bears witness to, Betty discovers an escape: she begins to write. She recounts the horrors of her family's past and present with pen and paper and buries them deep in the dirt--moments that has stung her so deeply, she could not tell them, until now.