What The Critics Have Said

"Extraordinary and extraordinarily sensual…Beineix's film, with its cascading intimation of craziness and doom, is a work of great comedy, great sadness, great beauty and great audacity."– Joe Baltake, INSIDE

"A masterpiece…one of the purest, most powerful love stories to appear on screen…a master storyteller". – Laurie Halpern Smith, Movieline

"One of the best French films of the 80s." – BBC, Channel 4"Extraordinary and extraordinarily sensual…Beineix's film, with its cascading intimation of craziness and doom, is a work of great comedy, great sadness, great beauty and great audacity."– Joe Baltake, INSIDE

"A masterpiece…one of the purest, most powerful love stories to appear on screen…a master storyteller". – Laurie Halpern Smith, Movieline

"One of the best French films of the 80s." – BBC, Channel 4

"Extraordinary and extraordinarily sensual…Beineix's film, with its cascading intimation of craziness and doom, is a work of great comedy, great sadness, great beauty and great audacity."– Joe Baltake, INSIDE

"A masterpiece…one of the purest, most powerful love stories to appear on screen…a master storyteller". – Laurie Halpern Smith, Movieline

""One of the best French films of the 80s." – BBC, Channel 4

"A sexually explicit tale of a crazy love." – San Francisco Chronicle

"Feverish tale of amour fou…Dalle, a model, makes a moving debut as the desperate baby-doll who fails to mold reality to her own conceptions of happiness."– Variety

"To love 'Betty Blue' is to love a bomb that can go off, blowing itself up, at any moment."
– Jerry Tallmer, New York Post

"A muse as drawn by Picasso perhaps, impudent, full-lipped, infinitely delectable."
– Sheila Benson, Los Angeles Times

"An extraordinarily sensual movie."  – Paul Attanasio, Washington Post

"Perhaps the biggest reason for Betty Blue's cult success is that it was nearly an entire generation's first experience with cinematic sex. It was so seductively forbidden for anyone who was a teenager in the 1980s..'Betty Blue' is imprinted on the minds of millions of men as the cinematic equivalent of losing their virginity." –Sarah Chauncey, Reel.com

"Betty Blue" is a film to make you laugh, get you excited, move you to anger and leave you in a melancholy that sinks to the bottom of your soul. In short, it does what finest cinema should do, ferment in your intellect while engaging your emotions."
– Bruce Kirkland, The Toronto Sun