Betty

Betty

1992 · 103 min · FR · 6.4 (68 votes)
Dir. Claude Chabrol · Starring Marie Trintignant, Stéphane Audran, Jean-François Garreaud, Yves Lambrecht, Christiane Minazzoli, Pierre Vernier · Music Matthieu Chabrol
Drama

A drunken, self-destructive woman called Betty wanders into a Parisian bar where she meets middle-aged alcoholic Laure. Laure decides to take care of Betty. Recovering in a hotel room, Betty begins to recount to Laure the story of her bourgeois life and her unhappy and unfaithful marriage.

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A raw, unflinching look at a woman drowning in her own regrets. It's a quiet, devastating portrait of addiction and the search for solace in the bottle, shared with another lost soul.

melancholicconfessionalbleakintrospectiveslow-burncharacter studynaturalisticarthouse dramaregretaddictionlonelinessself-destruction
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