3. Gabriel YaredBetty Blue
I watched lots of French cinema growing up because my uncle Damien was learning the language. I knew he’d been watching films if there were books stacked up against the TV to cover up the subtitles. Béatrice Dalle was my first pin up and Betty Blue was the first time I saw sex on screen. I found the movie so disturbing I only watched it once or twice. I had the soundtrack on cassette and that was a permanent fixture. It’s synaesthetic music. This and the soundtracks to Blade Runner and Rumble Fish remind me of a kind of melancholic enchantment that I often found myself in as a kid. Crazy really, there’s no way I’d let my daughter watch Betty Blue at seven years old. What were they thinking?!
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