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 Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: October 01, 1993 Sales Rank: 150
Amazon.com essential video: 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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Rating: - M. Butterfly
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. ... Read More
Rating: - A suprising romance
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 ... Read More
Rating: - Imperalists Fantasy
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 ... Read More
Rating: - Shocked and Amazed
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 ... Read More
Rating: - We Make Our Own Reality
I thoroughly enjoy watching this movie over and over. I remember seeing the Barbara Walters interview with the real life participants in this story and being able to see the real people(especially their "son" as an adult) ... Read More
- Imperalists Fantasy
- We Make Our Own Reality