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M. Butterfly

1993, Movie, R, 100 mins

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David Cronenberg has made a handsome, respectful film out of David Henry Hwang's intriguing, Tony award-winning play, "M. Butterfly." Though carefully cast and set in the most exotic of locales, the drama lacks any real excitement, the director's glacial style aligning itself all too patly with Hwang's arid rhetoric. The story begins in Beijing in 1964, with the meeting of French diplomat Rene Gallimard (Jeremy Irons) and Song Liling (John Lone), a man who performs female... read more leave a comment
Year: 1993
Rated R

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Jeremy Irons: Rene Gallimard
John Lone: Song Liling
Barbara Sukowa: Jeanne Gallimard
Ian Richardson: Ambassador Toulon
Annabel Leventon: Frau Baden
Shizuko Hoshi: Comrade Chin

 

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