Betty Movie Review 1992

Sulky, drunken Betty (Trintignant) is doing her best to destroy her bourgeois life, escaping from her marriage into adultery and debasement. She meets the concerned middle-aged widow Laure (Audran), who inexplicably takes her to her hotel room, cleans her up, and spends the remainder of the movie as Betty's sounding-board. Betty's passive personality offers little to explain her appeal to either Laure or the viewer. Based on the novel by Georges Simenon. French with subtitles.

Distribution

New Yorker Video, 16 W. 61st St., 11th Fl., New York, NY 10023, Phone: (212)645-4600, Toll-free: 800-447-0196, Fax: (212)645-3030, Email: info@newyorkerfilms.com, URL: http://www.newyorkerfilms.com

Available on VHS
Running time 103 minutes.
Originally from French.

Cast and Crew

Genres

On the Rocks, Books to Film: Georges Simenon, Women

Screenplay

Claude Chabrol

Cast

Marie Trintignant, Stephane Audran, Jean-Francoise Garreaud, Yves Lambrecht, Christiane Minazolli, Pierre Vernier

Director

Claude Chabrol

Music

Matthieu Chabrol

Producer

Marin Karmitz, MK2