Although it's excessively wordy at times, and overloaded with flashbacks only a few of which are truly revealing, "Betty" will always have value as a testament to Marie Trintignant's beauty and talent. In what is primarily a two-woman show (the other woman is played by Chabrol's ex-regular and ex-wife Stephane Audran, who is also superb), Marie creates a rounded, contradictory character who is hard to like but also hard to forget: sometimes you want to hug her, other times you want to slap her! When Marie died prematurely in 2003, the world lost a human being and the film world lost a fine actress, who had already shown that she did not rely on her father's recognizable name for her own career. **1/2 out of 4.
Review of Betty
