Betty Blue

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I voted for The Summer That Melted Everything to win every literary prize in 2016. I will be right there shouting from the rooftops that I loved this book. Please be aware that while I call this book beautiful in so many ways, dark things happen to and within this family. That is not what this book is about. Powerful, emotional, beautifully descriptive and haunting, I will never forget Betty, her indelible story, or the way she shared it through her daughter’s masterful skill. Based on the Handmade film ‘A Private Function’ and the original story by Alan Bennett and Malcom Mowbray. onu biraz dikkatlice izlediğimde oldukça tatsız bir duyguya kapılıyordum. sanki önemli bir şeyi kaybetmişim gibi geliyordu, dahası artık onu asla bulamayacağımdan kesinlikle emindim. ama bunun ne olduğunu bilmiyordum." course, in this case, it would be a girl—there are so many ways a girl can hurt. and if A girl comes of age against the knife isn’t just begging to be tattooed across all the clavicles of lilith fair, i don’t know what is.]

We don’t just love music here at Disobedient Sounds. We are big TV, Film and Gaming fans too. So every now and then we like to talk about what we are watching or playing.The leads are mostly mis-cast and cannot sing a note(a fairly standard requirement in a musical) Only Sarah Lancashire comes out unscathed though her pantomime dame Maggie Smith wears thin after a while. Poor Reece Shearsmith is just not up to the job, far too weak. Adrian Scarborough plays his role like all others hamming it up and acting like he feels he is much better than he actually is. The weakest is the Mother, nothing like the character is written, supposed to be 84 and doddery (played famously by Liz Smith in the film), this performance does not work on any level. Betty herself is a cheap animatronic with a humnic face which sings one line at the curtain call supposedly by Kylie, shouldnt have bothered. In music, a "blue note" is a note which departs from the expected major scale and instead goes minor (flat). You've heard it a million times in blues or jazz; it's "that note" that makes you go "oooooooh". In the film "Betty Blue", a meticulously crafted, deeply symbolic, allegorical tale of passion and madness, there's a wonderful scene where the 2 main characters slip away from a funeral wake in the middle of the night, find a room of pianos and play an impromptu duet. In this scene, the man and stable component of the relationship, Zorg, plays a chord progression while Betty, the volatile component, comes in with a simple melody hitting that powerful blue note. There is also no doubt that Alan Bennett’s screenplay for A Private Function, written with the movie’s director Malcolm Mowbray, is a major factor in the night’s success. Whilst the film was a little too depressing to be jolly good farce and too much like comedy to be a decent observation of post-war Britain, it was carried by Bennett’s beautifully observed characters – and the performances of Maggie Smith, Michael Palin, Denholm Elliot et al. Zorg (Jean-Hughes Anglalde) is an aspiring novelist with a novel in manuscript he has given up all hope of ever seeing published. But she believes in him and, using only two fingers, types out the manuscript with painful slowness, and, with an heroic persistence, continues sending it out to the publishers despite receiving a steady stream of rejection slips. And here-in lies the tragedy ; at the end of the film, when she is dead to the world and past caring, her efforts bear fruit and the manuscript is accepted. How happy knowing this would have made her. But too late.

Laying the foundation fellow Cinéma Du Look auteur Leos Carax would build on for his epic The Lovers on the Bridge, (1991-also reviewed) Beineix paints a sprawling romance atmosphere. Betty’s mother, Alka, has a tormented past, and she has her share of difficulty with mental health as a result. The author writes about this with honesty and openness, while showing how most of the family adapts, supporting one another. There’s such tenderness between many of the characters, such complete devotion. There’s complexity, too, where their human nature comes into play, the push and pull so many families experience in their dynamic. No one is perfect, and Betty, with her insightful narrative doesn’t hide anything from the reader. Betty is bold and strong and completely authentic. There's a reason there is so much chemistry between these two.. they made a massive film together full of a complex love and it's wonderful to watch the way the director intended.. It would be better if they offered both versions for discussion. I would love to see a very talented editor get his hands on this film, just for fun.To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life."

We share the most up to date music news for indie, alternative, underground and underheard bands and artists from across the planet. Keep an ear out for what you’re favourites are up to. Writer-director Jean-Jacques Beineix's film follows the sad life of Betty and her lover Zorg. From the steamy beginning of their relationship to the bitter end, we share in their heartache. This story has tragedy written all over it. The repeating, irregular, piano theme tune is what cinema is about -- when in the hands of people that know how to marry both mediums. Images and music fitting together to form a perfect marriage. Fantastic and moving. A review of Betty Blue Eyes at the Novello Theatre in London Sarah Lancashire as Joyce in Betty Blue Eyes. Photo: Roy Tan This book was equally hard to read and magical at the same time. The first thing that swept me away was the writing. It was enchanting and lyricle. Poetic and mesmerising.Man hatte ihn weggeworfen, obwohl er noch sehr schön war, voller Blätter, und DS einzige, was er hatte war Durst, und ich fühlte, wie mich eine Zuneigung für diesen Gummibaum überkam" s. 218~Metapher für Betty