Claude Chabrol hasn't been heard from much lately. Now he is back with Betty, based on a Georges Simenon novel. Betty, an attractive, 28-year-old, obviously affluent woman, sporting a strange look - is it hostile, preoccupied, weirdly detached, downright crazy? - finds herself, drunk on a terribly rainy night, in a homey bar in Versailles, where a kindly-seeming doctor has brought her for dinner. Yes, it was a pick-up in a Paris bar, and there is something odd about driving all the ...