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M. Butterfly
Drama, History, Romance
In 1960s China, French diplomat Rene Gallimard falls in love with opera singer Song Liling – but Song is not at all who Gallimard thinks.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers drawn to psychologically intricate romances about illusion, repression, and the painful collapse of an idealized love.
- Tone
- melancholic, cerebral, bittersweet
- Payoff
- heartbreak, revelation
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- desire, identity, self-deception, cultural displacement, espionage
- Setting
- mid-twentieth-century, diplomatic circles and institutional interiors in China
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