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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786303031897
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC
ISBN: 6303031897
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: November 10, 1997
Running Time: 101 minutes
Sales Rank: 420
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: October 01, 1993
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Jeremy Irons gives another superb and underrated performance in M Butterfly, an elegant adaptation of the Broadway hit by playwright David Henry Hwang. Irons plays a French diplomat in China in 1964 who falls in love with a star of the Beijing Opera, not realizing that the entrancing performer holds secrets that will ruin his life--that the singer is a spy for the Communist government is only the beginning of the diplomat's troubles. Though M Butterfly may seem like a departure for director David Cronenberg (best known for horror and science fiction flicks like The Fly and Scanners), the themes of desire and self-deception fit comfortably into his oeuvre, alongside his adaptations of difficult novels like Naked Lunch and Crash. M Butterfly, like the more popular movie The Crying Game, is a cunning examination of love and denial. Also featuring John Lone (The Last Emperor). --Bret Fetzer
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At first I didn't know quiet what to make of this movie. Jeremy Irons sure does have the talent to play "STRANGE" beyond words. I don't own the VHS, I have a movie on a CD, but still this is quiet an interesting movie. To love someone for 18 years and NOT know they are man, only proves, "Love is blind". After I watched this a couple of times, I grew to appreciate the talent that REALLY went into this movie. ONLY Jeremy Irons and John Lone could have pulled this off. If you are affended by same sex ... Read More
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If you're looking for a Book turned into a movie--this is it but in a very obscure fashion. This movie takes the stereotypes that Long writes about in his short novel and basically flips them around here. Here you have the American man, but it is he that is hopelessly inlove with the Asian "woman" (using that term lightly). She is the one that is full of decite and ends up betraying him. At the end, he has to realize that he, not only was abdoned and betrayed, but it was by a man. This movie had ... Read More
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M Butterfly tells the story of a French American Diplomat, Rene Gallimard, who falls in love with Chinese opera singer, Song Liling. Unbeknownst to Gallimard, Song Liling is a Chinese informant gathering information of American troop movement in Vietnam. Song Liling has an even deeper secret she is hiding from Gallimard, her true identity as a man. Despite Lilings love for Gallimard, he testifies against him and Gallimard ends up in jail. While heartbroken and still in love with a lie, Gallimard commits ... Read More
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The movie M.Butterfly directed by David Cronenburg is based on a true life story about the French diplomat Rene Gallimard( Jeremy Irons)who falls in love with a Chinese opera singer named Song LiLing in Beijing in the 1960's. Gallimard is very fascinated with the opera singer and they soon begin a long passionate love affair. Gallimard plays this experienced man of the world yet so clumsy and love struck, as he manage to miss a very big detail about his lover. The character in the movie,Gallimard is very ... Read More
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SPOILER ALERT**
Cronenberg's movie M. Butterfly is full of unexpected twists and turns. The French-American diplomat Rene Gallimard has fallen for a Chinese Opera singer. They embark n a lusty affair that ends in an unprecedented event. Song Liling, the Opera singer, is betraying Rene in more ways then one. She is using him to gain information on American troops in Vietnam. He has no idea that she is using him and he has no idea that she is actually a HE. When Rene ends up in prison, he uses ... Read More
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