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Betty Blue is a 1986 French film. Its original French title is 37°2 le matin, which means "37.2°C in the Morning". (37.2°C [99°F] is the normal morning temperature of a pregnant woman.)  The film received both a BAFTA and Oscar in 1986, as well as winning a nomination for Best Foreign Language Film César Award for Best Poster. In 1992 it was awarded the Golden Space Needle of the Seattle International Film Festival. Betty (Dalle) and Zorg (Anglade) are passionate lovers who live in a shack on the beach. He works as a handyman who does odd jobs to pay the bills. As the film begins, they have only been dating for a week and are in a very passionate stage of their relationship. Zorg's boss asks him to paint the 500 shacks that populate the beach—a fact that he keeps from Betty who thinks they only have to do one. She attacks the project with enthusiasm that quickly turns to anger once she learns the actual number. In response, Betty covers the boss’s car with pink paint. During a nasty fight, Betty accidentally discovers a series of notebooks that contain a novel Zorg wrote years ago. She reads it and falls in love with him even more. She then makes it her mission in life to type every hand-written page and get it published [Wikipedia] After watching it, I'll call it "Under the Tuscan Sun meets Million Dollar Baby."  Unfortunately,  the film is marred by a lot of full nudity—   both Betty and Zorg spend much of the movie jiggling about in the altogether.  But don't let that put you off.  Bare breasts are commonplace anymore, and you can very easily pretend Betty is wearing a black Bikini bottom.  The love scenes are simulated (probably), and neither men nor women view the  gentleman's sausage as  anything erotic. So what you're left with is a pretty good film.  Instant watch on NetFlix.