At it's heart Betty Blue is an intense, unforgiving drama, which quickly unfolds to a devastating and emotional end. Whilst both the main characters, Betty (played by Béatrice Dalle) and Zorg (Jean-Hugues Anglade) spend a great deal of the film naked (not that anyone is complaining), the viewer quickly stops noticing this surface nudity and realises that it represents something so much more, something much deeper beneath the surface.