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Bookmark this pageBetty (1991)
Director: Claude Chabrol
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From Time Out Film Guide
Betty (Trintignant), a once well to-do housewife, now a pasty barfly, is taken under the wing of Laure (Audran), conveniently wealthy and herself a borderline alcoholic. Gradually fragments of Betty's story emerge in non-chronological, sometimes misleading, flashbacks, revealing a character simultaneously vulnerable and poisonous, moving haphazardly between her key modes of lassitude and betrayal. Chabrol is the least ingratiating of storytellers and certainly the portrait of Betty we end up with is admirably unsentimental. On the other hand, she's such an aggravating presence that after 103 minutes there will be few viewers who won't rejoice to see the back of her.Author:
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Cast & crew
Director: Claude Chabrol
Producer: Marin Karmitz
Cast: Marie Trintignant, Stéphane Audran, Jean-François Garreaud, Yves Lambrecht, Christiane Minazzoli, Pierre Vernier, Thomas Chabrol full cast
Duration: 103 mins
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