Another translated title...

And again it's nothing like the original! For some reason "37°2 le matin" was released in the UK as Betty Blue. Which is a pretty awful title really.

The film certainly opens in pretty explicit fashion (and carried strident warnings when first shown on Channel 4!), and at first the viewer could be forgiven for thinking this is one of those typical foreign films where you are pretty much guaranteed nudity.

It changes, though. As the film progresses, it becomes clearer how the title character does have some "issues", and I suppose in today's parlance this would be described as manic depressive - going from extreme highs to plunging lows.

It's one of those lows that prompts one of the most shocking events in the film, and the ultimate act that her anguished partner has to carry out, much in line with the ending of another favourite of mine, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.

Funny that Beatrice Dalle should go from this to doing ads on British TV with Robert Lindsay though - sure that's not what she saw this as being a springboard for!