my-tv-is-dead: Betty Blue aka 37°2 le matin (1986)

enough said

You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates : Werner Herzog
The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum, to be the audience and to select from what happens during the day which movement shall be a disaster and which a gala night. His job is to preside over accidents : Orson Welles
People sometimes say that the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like watching television -- you don't feel anything : Andy Warhol
One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that : Oliver Stone
If you can't believe a little in what you see on the screen, it's not worth wasting your time on cinema : Serge Daney
For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake : Alfred Hitchcock
Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, but what they are : Robert Bresson
Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls : Ingmar Bergman
All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They're obliged to overstate their own importance : FrantOis Truffaut
All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl : Jean-Luc Godard

Sunday, February 27, 2011

Betty Blue aka 37°2 le matin (1986)

The ultimate love story. Two people are getting closer and a relationship full of passion begins. Betty and Zorg will live their love till the end. He is a handyman, living a simple life until the day he meets Betty. She comes to stay with him and soon they will continue the same path through happiness. They will change different works as they move out from the one place to another. They will find friends who will support them and help them offering them a job. But Betty will start to have a difficult behavior against ordinary life problems and she will also start acting in a strange way. Zorg is in love with her and wants to help her but the fate keeps surprises for both of them. Can they survive into this weird relationship? This is THE film about relationships among people. Realistic with a touch of romance in a way that only French director Jean-Jacques Beineix could describe as he only raised controversy not for the subjects he tackled but for his stylistic approach!