Jean-Hugues Anglade, Beatrice Dalle, Gerard Darmon. Title from opening screens. Wide screen (1.66:1). Originally produced as a motion picture in 1986. Adapted from the novel 37°2 le matin by Philippe Djian. Special features: Blue notes and bungalows, a sixty-minute documentary; making of "Betty blue"; Le chien de monsieur Michel, a short film; French television interview from 1986 with Beineix and Dalle; Dalle screen test; trailers; plus an essay by critic Chelsea Phillips-Carr.
Summary:
Featuring a magnetic breakout performance by Bátrice Dalle, Jean-Jacques Beineix's art-house smash, presented here in its extended director's cut, is a sexy, crazy, careening joyride of a romance that burns with the passion and beyond-all-reason fervor of all-consuming love.
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