The inexplicable character motivations that were so frustrating in Beineix’s earlier film The Moon in the Gutter are here isolated to a single character.
Jean-Jacques Beineix rocketed to cinematic stardom with the colorful, swirling 1981 film Diva, then fell to Earth with the oppressive The Moon in the Gutter.
The name of the movie is "Betty Blue," and it is the third work by the Frenchman whose first film was the electrifying " Diva " and whose second was the baffling " The Moon in the Gutter ."