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M. Butterfly is a 1993 American romantic drama film directed by David Cronenberg and written by David Henry Hwang based on his 1988 play. The film stars Jeremy Irons and John Lone, with Ian Richardson, Barbara Sukowa, and Annabel Leventon.
Oct 8, 1993 · Gallimard is played by Jeremy Irons, the screen’s poet of tortured sexuality, and no one else could have done a better job of suggesting the inverted obsession that leads him to fixate on a “woman” who keeps him always at arm’s length.
During the Cultural Revolution in China in the mid-1960s, a French diplomat falls in love with a singer in the Beijing Opera. Interwoven with allusions to the Puccini opera "Madama Butterfly", a story of love and betrayal unfolds. —Michael C. Berch <mcb@postmodern.com>
M. Butterfly: Directed by David Cronenberg. With Jeremy Irons, John Lone, Barbara Sukowa, Ian Richardson. In 1960s China, French diplomat Rene Gallimard falls in love with an opera singer, Song Liling - but Song is not at all who Gallimard thinks.
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- Drama, Romance
- David Cronenberg
- 1993-10-01
Synopsis René Gallimard (Jeremy Irons) is a diplomat from France who has been sent to Beijing. While acclimating to life in China, Gallimard meets and becomes enamored of Song Liling (John...
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M. Butterfly is a 1993 American romantic drama film directed by David Cronenberg and written by David Henry Hwang based on his 1988 play. The film stars Jeremy Irons and John Lone, with Ian Richardson, Barbara Sukowa, and Annabel Leventon.
David Cronenberg's film adaptation of David Henry Hwang's play; itself entwined with the opera Madame Butterfly. The film depicts a relationship between a French diplomat and a beautiful opera singer. It's a relationship apparently based on love, but actually based on lies.
