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| Jean-Hugues Anglade | ... | Zorg | |
| Béatrice Dalle | ... | Betty | |
| Gérard Darmon | ... | Eddy | |
| Consuelo De Haviland | ... | Lisa | |
| Clémentine Célarié | ... | Annie | |
| Jacques Mathou | ... | Bob | |
| Vincent Lindon | ... | Richard le jeune policier | |
| Jean-Pierre Bisson | ... | Le commissaire (complete version) | |
| Dominique Pinon | ... | Le dealer / Dope dealer (complete version) | |
| Bernard Hug | ... | (complete version) | |
| Catherine D'At | |||
| Claude Aufaure | ... | Le médecin | |
| Louis Bellanti | ... | Mario | |
| Dominique Besnehard | ... | Client pizzeria | |
| Raoul Billerey | ... | Le vieux policier | |
| Nathalie Dalyan | ... | Maria (as Nataly Dalian) | |
| Nicolas Jalowyj | ... | Le petit Nicolas | |
| André Julien | ... | Le vieux Georges | |
| Daniel Millot | |||
| Marthe Moudiki-Moreau | |||
| Bernard Robin | ... | Deuxième locataire | |
| Claude Confortès | ... | Propriétaire des bungalows | |
| Philippe Laudenbach | ... | L'éditeur, Le gynéco | |
| Leonie Berthuit | ... | La morte | |
| Frédéric Caratini | ... | Archie | |
| Raymond Julien | ... | Le vieux type décès | |
| Jacky Galibert | ... | L'infirmier musclé | |
| Fabien Béhar | ... | (complete version) | |
| Simon de La Brosse | ... | (complete version) | |
| Franck-Olivier Bonnet | ... | (complete version) | |
| Eugène Berthier | ... | (complete version) | |
| Christine Datnowsky | ... | (complete version) | |
| Claude Duneton | ... | (complete version) (as Claude Dureton) | |
| Jessica Forde | ... | (complete version) | |
| Rabah Loucif | ... | (complete version) | |
| Bernadette Palas | ... | (complete version) | |
| Laurence Renn | ... | (complete version) | |
| Stéphane Verbiest | ... | (complete version) |
Réalisé par | |||
| Jean-Jacques Beineix | |||
Scénaristes | ||
| Philippe Djian | (novel) | |
| Jean-Jacques Beineix | (writer) | |
Produit par | |||
| Jean-Jacques Beineix | .... | producer | |
| Claudie Ossard | .... | producer | |
Musique originale | |||
| Gabriel Yared | |||
Image | |||
| Jean-François Robin | |||
Montage | |||
| Marie-Aimée Debril | (extended version) | ||
| Monique Prim | |||
| Pablo Ferro | (uncredited) | ||
Distribution des rôles | |||
| Dominique Besnehard | |||
Création des décors | |||
| Carlos Conti | |||
Décorateur de plateau | |||
| Jacques Leguillon | |||
Création des costumes | |||
| Elisabeth Tavernier | |||
Maquillage | |||
| Judith Gayo | .... | hair designer | |
| Judith Gayo | .... | key makeup artist | |
Directeur de production | |||
| Jérôme Chalou | .... | production manager (complete version) | |
| Volker Lemke | .... | production manager | |
Assistant réalisateur | |||
| Martine Bernath | .... | trainee assistant director | |
| Jean-François Chaintron | .... | first assistant director | |
| Laurent Duquesnoy | .... | second assistant director | |
Art Department | |||
| Jean-Jacques Aissa | .... | carpenter (as Jacques Aissa) | |
| Jean-Jacques Aissa | .... | painter (as Jacques Aissa) | |
| Antoine Berthet | .... | carpenter | |
| Antoine Berthet | .... | painter | |
| Guy Chouard | .... | carpenter | |
| Guy Chouard | .... | painter | |
| Renaud Colas | .... | property master | |
| Régis Des Plas | .... | first assistant decorator | |
| Kim Doan | .... | construction coordinator | |
| Milan Filip | .... | carpenter | |
| Milan Filip | .... | painter | |
| Antonio Grassi | .... | carpenter | |
| Antonio Grassi | .... | painter | |
| Jean-François Leuret | .... | carpenter | |
| Jean-François Leuret | .... | painter | |
| Christophe Lomax | .... | carpenter | |
| Christophe Lomax | .... | painter | |
| Daniel Mauvignier | .... | chief painter | |
| Louis Morand | .... | carpenter | |
| Louis Morand | .... | painter | |
| Yves Moreno | .... | carpenter | |
| Yves Moreno | .... | painter | |
| Denis Moutereau | .... | carpenter | |
| Denis Moutereau | .... | painter | |
| Jacques Quinternet | .... | set dresser | |
Technicien du son | |||
| Anne-Marie Aulnay | .... | post-synchronisation assistant | |
| Michel Barlier | .... | post-synchronisation sound engineer | |
| Pierre Befve | .... | sound | |
| Pascal Chauvin | .... | foley artist | |
| Julien Cloquet | .... | sound engineer | |
| Martine Cuisinier | .... | assistant sound editor | |
| Christine Dewavrin | .... | sound editor | |
| Jean Duguet | .... | foley engineer | |
| Patrick Egreteau | .... | foley assistant | |
| Pierre Excoffier | .... | sound assistant (as Pierre Excoffier) | |
| Dominique Hennequin | .... | sound | |
| Jean-Louis Lebras | .... | post-synchronisation boom operator | |
| Jean-Pierre Lelong | .... | foley artist | |
| Mariette Lévy-Novion | .... | sound editor (as Mariette Levy-Novion) | |
| Mario Melchiorri | .... | foley assistant | |
| Claude Plouganou | .... | post-synchronisation engineer | |
Effets spéciaux | |||
| Christian Bourqui | .... | rain | |
| Jean-François Cousson | .... | rain | |
| Philippe Ferrer | .... | special effects: fire | |
| Pierre Foury | .... | special effects: fire | |
Cascadeur | |||
| Chantal Adment | .... | car stunt | |
| Patrick Cauderlier | .... | stunts | |
| Yves Gabrielli | .... | car stunt | |
| Alain Guerillot | .... | car stunt | |
| Philippe Vittoriani | .... | fall stunt | |
Camera and Electrical Department | |||
| Jean Atanassian | .... | gaffer | |
| Michel Atanassian | .... | electrician | |
| Guy Canu | .... | key grip | |
| Ariane Damain | .... | first assistant camera | |
| Bruno Delbonnel | .... | second assistant camera (as Bruno Delbonnel) | |
| Bernard Estève | .... | electrician | |
| Dominique Fourny | .... | grip | |
| Patrick Gasché | .... | electrician (as Patrick Gashe) | |
| Marianne Rosenstiehl | .... | set photographer | |
Casting Department | |||
| Hervé Austen | .... | casting assistant | |
| Huguette Mathieu | .... | extras casting | |
Costume and Wardrobe Department | |||
| Charlotte David | .... | costumer | |
Editorial Department | |||
| Dimitra Arapoglou | .... | editor trainee | |
| Sophie Bastien-Groult | .... | editor trainee (as Sophie Bastien Groult) | |
| Catherine-Alice Deiller | .... | first assistant editor (as Catherine Alice Deiller) | |
| Alain Minot | .... | assistant editor: second unit | |
| Yves Deschamps | .... | editor: second unit (uncredited) | |
Music Department | |||
| Patrick Bourgoin | .... | musician: saxophones | |
| Bruno Creange | .... | music producer | |
| Nicolas Jalowyj | .... | musician: piano solo | |
| Etienne Mialet | .... | musician: saxophones | |
| Jean-Jacques Milteau | .... | musician: harmonica | |
| Slim Pezin | .... | musician: guitars | |
| Georges Rodi | .... | music supervisor | |
| Gilbert Roussel | .... | musician: Accordéon | |
| Patrice Tison | .... | musician: guitars | |
| Gabriel Yared | .... | conductor | |
| Gabriel Yared | .... | musician: Claviers | |
Divers | |||
| Lise Bèraha | .... | trainee manager | |
| Thierry Canu | .... | crane machinist | |
| Jean-Pierre Chamayou | .... | outdoor manager | |
| Denis Courtot | .... | trainee manager | |
| Francis Gal | .... | trainee manager | |
| Henri Gilles | .... | production administrator | |
| Jonathan Gontar | .... | screenplay translator | |
| Catherine Hommet | .... | production secretary | |
| Sylvie Koechlin | .... | script girl | |
| Gabrielle Mairesse | .... | unit publicist | |
| Gérard Marcireau | .... | outdoor manager | |
| Catherine Mazières | .... | general manager | |
| Romain Pache | .... | trainee manager | |
| Serge Paolotti | .... | trainee manager | |
| Catherine Pierrat | .... | assistant manager | |
| Christian Thurot | .... | groupman | |
| Julia Wagner | .... | financial consultant | |
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A happy-go-lucky odd job man (Jean-Hugues Anglade as Zorg) falls in to a relationship with a slightly unhinged -- but very sexy/sexual -- French teenager named Betty (Béatrice Dalle in her debut role.)
There are very few films that are totally different from anything you have seen before. While sexually explicit -- it is far from objectionable because the two parties are in love and passionate about one another.
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.
(Was this script written with her in mind? -- my search for the truth goes on.)
Starting the film with a sex scene sets the film off on the totally the wrong foot. While the film is about sex -- and at times sexual repression -- there are times when it looks like it was set in a nudist camp. Even Jean-Hugues Anglade strolls around with it all on show -- thankfully he looks like he has kept up his gym membership.
The scene in which Betty throws the whole of the fixtures and fittings of the beach apartment out of the window was stolen by a famous car advert (in the UK) and it really is a stretch of the imagination in that Zorg doesn't respond to it. He just paints on and lets her get on with it -- like he doesn't care.
(I think we all know how we would react in a similar situation and it wouldn't be like Zorg!)
This has great cinematography with every scene framed to perfection. The dour insides of the French household and the generally dirty oven and sink (usually with two weeks worth of dishes in them.) Very true if you know that part of the world!
The repeating, irregular, piano theme tune is what cinema is about -- when in the hands of people that know how to marry both mediums. Images and music fitting together to form a perfect marriage. Fantastic and moving.
The famous Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun Times gives this low marks -- citing too much flesh being on display (among other faults) -- and this is sad given that he gave Kill Bill Part One top marks. A woman making love to a man she is in passionately in love with is tasteless -- a homicidal woman slicing the arms of a whole room of gangsters is OK?
Roger -- I respect you a great deal, but you are as wrong as Leslie Halliwell (author of the world's most famous film guide book) when he gave Close Encounters no stars at all.
You should come over here (Europe) a bit more. Walk about the beaches of France and Spain and look at the amount of flesh on display and the way people show affection for one another without glancing 'round to see who is looking. True it has one or two sex scenes too many -- as I hinted before -- but it is sex that means something and is about something.
Betty Blue is one of my top 200 films of all time and while it has its limits and its faults (it does sag a little in middle) it remains a powerful piece of work about living with crazy people and how easily good times can slip in to bad. I think if the sex was toned down and there was a bit more of the comedy/romance in the centre than this could easily be part of the IMDb top 200. Not that this really matters all that much.
A product that only the French could make and one gets under your skin and stays there.
This review is a reference to the original cinema cut.