Screening Schedule
Japan | 1964 | 91' | In Japanese with English subtitles | 35mm | Colour
Adapted from Japanese literary master Junichiro Tanizaki’s famous novel of the same title with a script written by Japanese film master Shindo Kaneto, Manji refers to the four-pronged Buddhist swastika that symbolises prosperity, and is a metaphor for the four leads of this film.
Sonoko lives with her lawyer husband Kotaro in a state of social respectability and private ennui until she meets Mitsuko while attending a local art school. Spellbound by Mitsuko’s beauty, Sonoko starts a fiery affair with Mitsuko, who is already engaged to Eijiro. As Mitsuko’s beauty bewitches Kotaro, the four get deliriously entangled in a web of desire, exploitation, jealousy and suicide.
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Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film, Golden Globe Awards, USA, 1987
Best Foreign Language Film, Boston Society of Film Critics Awards, USA, 1987
Betty Blue, a French erotic psychological classic about addictive and extreme love, desire and contradictory emotional forces, was the eighth highest grossing film in France in its year of release.
*Betty Blue (37°2 le matin) (Director's Cut) has been censored and classified as Category III by the Office for Film, Newspaper and Article Administration. Persons who are under 18 are not permitted.
Co-Presenters: Hong Kong Arts Centre and Alliance Française Hong Kong
#The above sceenings are part of the programme of Hong Kong Arts Centre Open House 2019 – Art X Encounter . Come Join with the Hong Kong Arts Centre on the bi-annual special night program “Art X”, which offers new and unique cross-disciplines art experiences for visitors of all ages with performances, film screenings and special programs. For details, please click here.
Ticket price:
Tickets package of Manji (includes one ticket of screening of Manji, Snack & Mocktail Bar): $90
Tickets package of Betty Blue (37°2 le matin) (Director's Cut) (includes one ticket of screening of Betty Blue and Snack & Mocktail Bar): $114
Tickets package of Manji and Betty Blue (37°2 le matin) (Director's Cut) (includes one ticket of screening of Manji and Betty Blue and Snack & Mocktail Bar): $164