“She was a flower with a psychic antenna and a tinsel heart. Not many girls could dress as casually as she did,” says the dulcet voiceover of handyman and would-be writer Zorg, remarking on his lover’s provocative sartorial displays. The tinsel hearted woman in question is our on-the-verge-of-insanity protagonist Betty, the title character of Jean-Jacques Beineix’s third work exemplifying the genre of Cinéma du Look, a 1980s movement in film that favoured self-conscious aesthetics, lush…
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