1993 · drama · romance · espionage
M. Butterfly
Directed by David Cronenberg1h 41m1993
In 1960s China, French diplomat Rene Gallimard falls in love with opera singer Song Liling – but Song is not at all who Gallimard thinks.
Our read: M. Butterfly (1993) reads as a sombre, measured, inventive drama · romance · espionage entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / romance, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- measured
- intense
- bleak
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