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From Betty Blue to ShortCuts

Those to whom Jean-Jacques Beineix's Betty Blue (1986) represented a seminal (ahem) crossover between the private consumption of soft porn and the public appreciation of glossy arthouse cinema may be jarred to note that the film is now close to three decades old. The shadow it casts is long, for a work of variable critical reputation whose director's international star has waned; and it still stands as one of the most risque films to be nominated for the Foreign Language Oscar. This year's pathologically breast-aware awards host Seth Macfarlane would have blown a fuse.

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