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Original title: Betty Fisher et autres histoires
Release Date
• USA: Sep 13, 2002
• UK: 14 Jun 2002
Budget FRF 50,000,000
Official Website:
Alias Betty Website
Running Time
1 hour, 43 minutes
Country France, Canada
Studio Canal Plus, Films de la Boissiere, France 2 Cinema, Go Films, UFD, Union Generale Cinematographique
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Other Titles
• Betty Fisher et autres histoires
• Alias Betty
• Betty Fisher and Other Stories
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Genre: Crime, Psychodrama, Suspense, Kidnapping, Mental Illness
Plot: Director Claude Miller was a protégé of Francois Truffaut, and the French master’s influence is clear in this low-key thriller, based on the novel THE TREE OF HANDS by Ruth Rendell. Betty (Sandrine Kiberlain), a reclusive best-selling author and mother of a young son, is having a hard enough time dealing with a visit from her eccentric and self-involved mother, Margot (Nicole Garcia), who suffers from a blood disorder that occasionally makes her violent. Betty has the scars from her childhood to prove it. When Betty’s son is suddenly and tragically killed, Margot doesn’t seem very sympathetic. This story is intertwined with the story of Carole (Mathilde Seigner of WITH A FRIEND LIKE HARRY), the neglectful and abusive mother of Jose (Alexis Chatrian), who is about the same age as Betty’s son. When Margot, in a deranged effort to help her daughter, kidnaps Jose, Carole’s good-natured African boyfriend, Francois (Luck Mervil) is a prime suspect, and goes looking for the real kidnapper to clear his name. Miller deftly weaves an engaging and suspenseful tale in which characters of different classes and cultures pass through each other's lives. While some of them behave atrociously, Miller never forgets their essential humanity.
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Claude Miller
Under Suspicion, The Story of Adele H., Enfant sauvage, L' | Ruth Rendell
A Judgement in Stone, No Night Is Too Long, Inquiétudes |
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| Nicole Garcia
Uns et les autres, Les, Mon oncle d'Amérique, The Gendarme Gets Married | | Luck Mervil
Notre-Dame de Paris, Un dimanche à Kigali, C'est pas moi, c'est l'autre | Edouard Baer
Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra, Terror Firmer, God Is Great, I'm Not | | Yves Jacques
Invasion of the Barbarians, Jesus of Montreal, The Widow of Saint-Pierre | |
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