Description: In 1964, Gorémi Irones, an accountant at the French Embassy in China, was fascinated by Madame Butterfly on stage while watching an opera. After the play, he took the initiative to show his kindness to Song Liling, the actor of Madame Butterfly and an actress of Peking Opera. Again and again, two lonely hearts fell in love. However, the good times did not last long, a movement broke out, and Song Liling heard nothing. In 1968, Song Liling came to France to reunite with Gao Renni. Years later, when Gao Renni was accused of being a spy, standing on the witness stand was Song Liling in a suit and leather shoes. Gaureni, who referred to men and women, became the laughing stock of all of France. How will these two men face each other and how will they face their love?
Story: ★★★
Butterfly Dream Shattered, a sad movie, the prototype of the story is Shi Peipu, a legend, as the reality and the protagonist in the movie said is a perfect dream, to make such a perfect dream is much better than doing nothing.
Highlights: Based on real people and real events. In the 1960s, Shi Peipu and Bursico, an employee of the French Embassy in Beijing
Director: ★★
The film was not made successfully, and in the same year, there was a movie with the same theme, "Farewell to the King", but the ending outside the film was very different: "Farewell to the King" countless awards pressed, the scenery is infinite; "Butterfly King" was controversial, mixed reputation, and then annihilated. The plot offended western audiences, and chinese audiences did not think so. Westerners cannot bear this kind of self-imperialist sentimentalism being deceived and toyed with by the ancient civilization of the East, which they think is the birthplace of modern civilization and that the East will always be a backward and vulnerable group. And Chinese audiences feel that the film is full of Westerners' large sections of misinterpretations and fallacies about China, and the understanding of the East is only the way Westerners understand it.
Highlights: Some metaphors on top of deep thinking about East-West relations, produced by David Cornenberg
Performance: ★★★★
The acting skills of the two film emperors are very outstanding, although the men's clothing is indeed god-level, but the men and women in the film are also soft and delicate, and their noble temperament that is difficult to hide, a move of hands and a full throw to make everyone fall, Jerami to change the image of the charming uncle in other movies is a fragile fool's role, and the later stage of the film is also moving enough. The passion scene of the two same-sex protagonists in the film naturally seems to be attributed to the acting skills of the two.
Highlights: Zun Long, Jeremy Irons
Audio-visual: ★★
The film is built with a specific time and space background, I don't know if it is a real scene, the Beijing hutongs, the Great Wall, the Summer Palace in the 90s are very contemporary, and the layout of the courtyard is very exquisite, and there is a picture in the film that contrasts with the movement (in 1968, the French student wave broke out, later known as the "May Storm", in the words of the film, it is said that it was influenced by that movement)
Highlights: Old Beijing style in the 60s-70s, background in the 60s-70s era