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| A beautiful, drunken, and promiscuous girl (Marie Trintignant) ends a disastrous evening at The Hole, a bar catering to the twisted and outcast. There she meets the recently widowed Laure (Stéphane Audran), an elegant retiree who lives alone in a luxury hotel. Laure takes Betty under her wing. Gradually, details of Betty's sad, sordid and, at times, sinister story of betrayal and self-destruction unfold in flashbacks as the women’s relationship evolves into a lethal game of cat-and-mouse. Adapted from the novel by Georges Simenon, Betty shares many of the themes that made Chabrol’s superb Les Biches (1968, starring Audran and Jean-Lous Trintignant) so erotically suspenseful...and Hitchockian: The exchange of identity and guilt between two women of different ages, both in love with the same man. |
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| Not to be missed...not since La Femme infidèle and La Rupture has [Chabrol] so vividly demonstrated the anarchic powers of sexuality." -- Dave Kehr, The New York Daily News This twisty, strange, voluptuous film, based on a novel by Georges Simenon, lingers in the imagination for a long time with its dreamy, deliberate pacing, end-of-the-world atmosphere and haunting metaphorical images -- Dave Kehr, The New York Times |
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| Extras on DVD • 16x9 Enhanced • A presentation by film scholar Joel Magny • Original French trailer • Stills gallery • Optional English subtitles |
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