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Betty Blue (1986)

★ 7.2 · 464 ratings on TMDB
Betty Blue poster★ 7.2

A lackadaisical handyman and aspiring novelist tries to support his younger girlfriend as she slowly succumbs to madness.

DirectorJean-Jacques Beineix
CastBéatrice Dalle, Catherine D'At, Claude Aufaure, Clémentine Célarié, Consuelo De Haviland, Gérard Darmon
GenresDrama, Romance
The emergence reading

Betty Blue keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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