Betty Blue, a film previously thought only to exist in the form of posters on the walls of undergraduate males in the mid 1990s, is currently on BFI Player.
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Once went to a student (obvs) screening at the Cottage Road Cinema in Leeds. In the silence that follows Betty's long, screaming orgasm in the opening scene, a very Yorkshire voice in the dark just said: "Nice one."
It's also on Amazon Prime. I don't actually know anything about it other than it was a cliche for young men to have the poster on their walls. I have inferred there's sex in it.
It is an amazing film about the heartbreak of love and mental illness, and I just ... really, really do not need the wokest people on the internet to discover because it's extremely weird and problematic but that is why it is good.
Writer falls for a woman with severe bipolar disorder, several years (I think) of the highs and lows of their relationship. One of Jean-Hugues Anglade's greatest performances (as the writer) and Beatrice Dalle is incredible.
(Also the scene where a sofa bed in a friend's house breaks during sex and a otherwise very sexy movie sexy scene has to be interrupted while they try and fix this sofa bed, naked, may be my favourite movie sex scene)
I’ve seen about 2 minutes of it when we were taken on a school trip to see an undergraduate production of Oedipus Rex at UEA, and the play opened with him whacking off to Betty Blue (bafflingly, and alarmingly for the accompanying teacher). I don’t remember anything else about the production.
My friend Mark, 18 at the time, was sent off to rent a film to watch with his girlfriend and her father, not knowing anything about the content of Betty Blue, he chose Betty Blue.
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