Betty Blue

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Underneath its brilliantly colored, highly stylized surfaces, this key work of 1980s French cinema is a heartrending portrait of a woman struggling to both inhabit and reject traditionally feminine roles. Then again, the show’s poignancy comes across well in some of the ballads, especially ‘Magic Fingers’ in the first half and ‘The Kind of Man I Am’ in the second. Most are press and media only for publicity purposes sent either prior or at the time of the films release for publicity purposes, or for the films first video releases from the 1980s, or for press articles related to the directors. There’s no question that the song of the night is “Nobody”, which she delivers with a fierce gusto that will be sung back to Cameron Mackintosh by thousands of auditioning gals for decades to come.

Mackintosh had to step up to the plate at some point, and he’s done so with a show that will, finally, put this writing duo firmly on the international map of Class A theatre composers.It certainly became ‘the thing’ for me, and it just sat there, growling, like a big black dog in the corner. A stunning film which cuts across the entire narrative range from absolute farce to ultimate tragedy. We explore what makes a record, what makes a song and what they mean to the bands and artists that created them. This classic 1980s French film opens a week after handyman Zorg meets the beautiful nineteen year old Betty.

it's amusing at times, erotic at others, but overall the story it tells is so insubstantial that you wonder what exactly compelled Beineix to tell it. Over an hour of extra footage significantly shifts the balance of the film, though it manages remarkably well to sustain its atmosphere throughout and there is a delightful sequence in which Anglade disguises himself as a woman to undertake a robbery that's well worth catching.

We’ll let you know when bands are on tour, which acts are on the festival line-up, where you can get tickets and we’ll even review the ones we go to ourselves. As well as being one of the all-time erotic classics (and I mean "erotic" rather than "pornographic") this is simply a fantastic drama, poignant and harrowing, funny and sad.

Betty may just be a character he was working on in his book, and he was thinking out his novel, that is why he says he is thinking at the very end.One day, when my parents were at work and my brother doing god knows what in his bedroom with his girlfriend, I sneaked the VHS to my other brother’s bedroom and played it. Betty Blue ultimately examines a problematic relationship between women’s perceived and experienced madness, demonstrating that style and substance can be inextricably bound—but it shouldn’t be. 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. They have been having a passionate affair already for some time, when one day she quits her job as a waitress because her (married) boss made unmistakably sexual advances. Most of the novel is taken up with their life together – Betty’s outbursts when a publisher rejects Zorg’s novel, her joy at being pregnant and her gloom when she finds she is not, while Zorg tries to keep things calm, knowing that Betty has made his life worth living but that, eventually, she is going to do something which is going to give him a lot of problems.