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I saw the director's cut before I watched the original version. When I watched the much shorter original, I felt cheated of experiencing some of Betty and Zorg's life. It is still a good movie in its original form, but the director's cut seems more complete. If you can't get enough of this movie, make sure you see the long version too.

My Favorite Foreign Film
This foreign film is definitely a 5. (Beatrice Dalle is such a BEAUTIFUL and TALENTED actress. She had so much passion and child like charm portraying Betty.) This is a really good movie. Its real easy to get into!

Betty is a very beautiful, assertive and highly opinionated woman and Zorg is an independent, easy going, and compassionate man. They are both very loyal and enjoy each other's companionship. Zorg narrates their story and the movie starts out showing them making love, I mean really making love--well at least it looks real. (They are not covered up by any sheets or covers.)

The basis of the storyline begins with an argument between Betty and Zorg. Betty over-reacts to the argument by turning Zorg's pad upside down; destroying almost every object in sight; in doing so she comes across Zorg's hidden personal novel inside a cardboard box. The novel interests her and distracts her from continuing her destructive tantrum. After she finishes reading it, she feels a new respect for Zorg. She stops being mad at him and becomes dedicated to him and getting his novel published. She believes in him and his talent much more than he does and tells him he is a "writer not a plumber".

Some of the highlights of the movie are when Betty dumps a bucket of pink paint on Zorg's unreasonable boss's sports car; and when a publisher replied with insults in a letter to Zorg about his novel, she admirably stands up to the guy who wrote and sent the letter by giving him a personal visit with a few words of her own, but then she goes on further and slashes across his face with a comb-like sharp object, leaving him shocked and bleeding! (I thought: isn't she eventually going to be sued or worse, sent to jail for the impulsive and aggressive things like this she does??? Well, she never does! I wondered....maybe laws are different in France? But then, yes, I reminded myself-its fiction!) Another impressive scene is when Zorg proves his faithfulness (to Betty) as Zorg's friend's sex-deprived, (and breast feeding...) wife tries to seduce him with surprising force and persistence. The scenes show how sensitive Zorg is by the way he gently rejects her, trying not to her feelings. (He is eventually provoked to push her off of him.)

Betty becomes depressed and discontent from repeatedly getting disappointing replies from book publishers. After she thought she was pregnant, she did perk up, but then found out she wasn't afterall, causing her to become more depressed and even worse, self destructive.

I wanted to see her become healed and then live happily ever after with Zorg, but instead she ends up with her mental health worsened; in a coma-like state at a mental institution. (I believe at the hands of her incompetent pill pushing psychiatrist!) And so Zorg painfully but lovingly ends her life, not before telling her his novel finally got accepted - - its so sad! She was right all along believing in his talent, but didn't get to experience and celebrate his success. I kept thinking "but ,IF only..." and I felt so sad for Zorg because he was all alone without Betty!

The last scene shows Zorg writing at a kitchen table with a wide-eyed, beautiful white cat beside him, seemingly to represent his true love, Betty.

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This film is about a woman with borderline personality disorder and his boyfriend Zorg