Betty Blue

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The Carpenters don’t fit in anywhere. Betty’s father, Landon, is Cherokee and her mother, Alka, is white. Betty, of all of her siblings inherited the most of her fathers Cherokee features finds it hard to blend in and come to terms with her place in the world. She finds solace and comfort in her family and Landon’s stories as he teaches his children to love the land and to never forget their ancestors and where they came from.

Betty herself is a cheap animatronic with a humnic face which sings one line at the curtain call supposedly by Kylie, shouldnt have bothered. Whether there was ever any intention on the part of Jean-Jacques Beineix to make a film about the struggles that women face every day I cannot answer, but he achieved this in the most colourful of ways. 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. How Betty dressed, her sexual confidence and her no-nonsense attitude did not make her crazy; it was how she was treated because she dared to be herself that drove her over the edge.

I voted for The Summer That Melted Everything to win every literary prize in 2016. I will be right there shouting from the rooftops that I loved this book. Please be aware that while I call this book beautiful in so many ways, dark things happen to and within this family. That is not what this book is about. Powerful, emotional, beautifully descriptive and haunting, I will never forget Betty, her indelible story, or the way she shared it through her daughter’s masterful skill.

The opening sex scene between Betty and Zorg is filmed in one long shot: one angle slowly moving closer to their naked bodies, from the initial throes of passion to climax. It is so natural, so intense, and so beautiful. You can almost feel the heat in the air, their sex like a storm brewing. The scene is set to the sounds of a fairground carousel playing a tune tinged with insanity, creepy and foreboding, and unmistakably French. Betty Blue/37°2 le matin doesn't really fall in to any one category -- going from farce to tragedy, stopping off at oddball. The two leads are amazing in their chemistry -- they really do look and act like they are in love. Also what an amazing debut by the Dalle, although her later life has shown that she has plenty of the Betty Blue in her for real. I loved the first 40 minutes of the film. They were tight. Every scene was compelling and entertaining. The film started gradually losing me when the couple re-located for the first time. Throughout that second part of the movie, very few things happened to drive the plot. It was mostly detours and anecdotes, mainly ones intended to be funny. Nearly an hour worth of those. On the one hand, those made the movie more natural and prevented it from being a monotone melodrama. On the other hand, they completely deprived it of tension. The tone vacillated from serious to humorous way too often, at the expense of both the dramatic and the comedic scenes. The original French title of this film hints at the oft-mentioned heat in the film - full of sweltering imagery thanks to Jean-François Robin's vivid cinematography - and it also references the body temperature of a pregnant woman. Pregnancy becomes an issue late in the film, but throughout there is the sense of something growing, something brooding, within the story and within its characters - Zorg's gestation of his novels, Betty's scarce ability to contain the energies within her. Bouts of frenzied sex (this is one of those films that briefly caused a scandal as the sex was probably real) seem to provide only temporary relief; what is inside must eventually erupt into the world, and this creates a tension that provides the film with focus even through its more langurous passages, the moments of calm within the storm. I don't know what to say about this story that isn't more eloquently stated somewhere else. Even the synopsis pretty much says it all.

There’s no denying that Betty’s actions are off the wall, but she never behaves like this without reason. Torching Zorg’s home was cruel, yes, but even then it was with good intentions. During her ‘meltdown’ she discovered books that Zorg had written years prior. No-one else had ever read them, and Zorg was initially uncomfortable with it, but she saw something in him that no-one else had. She had a reason to believe in him. A reason to believe in them; that they really could make a go of things while they were still young. They were poor, but they had time on their side and Betty’s extreme determination. And it is extreme. I know this because I also have it. That kind of drive can be a great attribute at times, but it can become dangerous when it morphs into obsession. I realized then that not only did Dad need us to believe his stories, we needed to believe them as well. To believe in unripe stars and eagles able to do extraordinary things. What it boiled down to was a frenzied hope that there was more to life than the reality around us. Only then could we claim a destiny we did not feel cursed to.’ Its an engaging thing, a rather delicate and rich journey within the thing, a well crafted love story. There are a hundred intimacies here, and most of them not directly involving the two romantically. Writer-director Jean-Jacques Beineix's film follows the sad life of Betty and her lover Zorg. From the steamy beginning of their relationship to the bitter end, we share in their heartache. This story has tragedy written all over it.

Un romanzo crudo, violento, che assume a tratti i connotati del thriller. Stupefacente il lirismo di alcuni passaggi course, in this case, it would be a girl—there are so many ways a girl can hurt. and if A girl comes of age against the knife isn’t just begging to be tattooed across all the clavicles of lilith fair, i don’t know what is.] 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.. 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.Für den frühen Abend waren Gewitter angesagt, aber der Himmel blieb blau und der Wind hatte nachgelassen " ~was für ein Anfang... Einfach feierbar. Betty ist und bleibt ein einzigartiges Buch. Es war ein langsamer Genuss hab länger gebraucht als sonst, was jedoch nicht gegen das Buch spricht.der Autor hat wirklich Talent seinen Leser zu überraschen. Es gab so viele plottwists! Werde ein bisschen melancholisch wenn ich dar��ber nachdenke, dass ich es jetzt durch habe, es ist einfach soo viel passiert!!aber baby blue geht jz zu mami Alex

Women have the crazy cat gene, too, and only a fella who's never lived with one would wonder what the hell I'm talking about. Women might deny it, too, but that's expected. Jean-Jacques Beineix's "Betty Blue" is about such a woman, only her cat gene is starting to ruin her life and the lives of those around her. It''s horrible to watch the gorgeous, luscious-lipped Beatrice Dalle come apart at the seams and plunge into madness, but it's the stuff of a great movie, and it's why the film is so engaging. Betty is a story based on the author’s mother’s life. It’s written in first person with Betty narrating. She shares the earliest history of both her parents, and then takes us through the family’s life as her siblings are born, before and after she is born, and up through the years as she comes-of-age.

Framing the rough-edged,troubled alienated youth (a major theme of the movement) of Betty and Zorg, Beineix closes in on the couple in long gliding panning shots, stopping on Betty and Zorg being naked, both physically and mentally. The film is beautiful. The first forty-five minutes, where Zorg and Betty hook up and paint beach houses, is very French, very cinematic, and very erotic. The photography is stunning and the emotions are real. Once Betty's madness begins to impact on the relationship, we experience every tragic step in her decline. Someone important. You know why I call you Little Indian? So that you know you’re already someone important.” 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.