Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueEunice is walking along the highways of northern England from one filling station to another. She is searching for Judith, the woman, she says to be in love with. It's bad luck for the women... Tout lireEunice is walking along the highways of northern England from one filling station to another. She is searching for Judith, the woman, she says to be in love with. It's bad luck for the women at the cash desk not to be Judith, because Eunice is eccentric, angry and extreme dangero... Tout lireEunice is walking along the highways of northern England from one filling station to another. She is searching for Judith, the woman, she says to be in love with. It's bad luck for the women at the cash desk not to be Judith, because Eunice is eccentric, angry and extreme dangerous. One day she meets Miriam, hard of hearing and a little ingenuous, who feels sympathy f... Tout lire
- Réalisation
- Scénario
- Casting principal
- Récompenses
- 4 nominations au total
- Waitress
- (as Elizabeth McGrath)
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"Butterfly Kiss" is a disturbing but also boring movie directed by Michael Winterbottom. The weird Amanda Plummer is in the top of her career quite immediately after "Pulp Fiction" but the plot is too sick and repetitive. Maybe in 1995 this film could be more attractive, but today it is annoying. My vote is four.
Title (Brazil): "O Beijo da Borboleta" ("The Butterfly Kiss")
It is not a Hollywood entertainment, nor is it a Jane Austen prestige picture, or a politely naughty comedy for the art house crowd. It's a movie for people who are willing to risk a certain amount of emotional discomfort to gain the benefits of experiencing the world through unaccustomed perspectives. It's for those who want to learn about human beings on the margins of society, the forgotten, the pathological, the lost.
It's the sort of film that can't be appreciated without a high tolerance for unsympathetic protagonists, unreliable narrators, unintelligible motivations, and morally ambiguous conclusions.
In short, Butterfly Kiss demands an intellectual curiosity and nimbleness of mind that's not always characteristic of American audiences.
This is not to argue that it's necessarily a good film, or successful at achieving its ambitions. More than once, while watching it, I found myself wondering how much relation to real people this story might actually have. Unlike Monster, with which it has obvious parallels, Butterfly Kiss doesn't appear to be based on factual events.
The film's ability to cause me to "suspend disbelief" suffered from a touch too much Grand Guignol excess and, perhaps more damningly, writerly artifice. (For no clear reason, the protagonists are named "You"(Eunice) & "Me" (Miriam).)
But the characters kept on surprising me, which indicates, if nothing else, that there's something vital and alive about this story. By the end, I was moved to pity for these two deeply damaged women, and, perhaps more importantly, I was moved to compassion.
For that, I'd sit through an unpleasant movie any day of the week.
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- AnecdotesAccording to the director, this feature was shot on a budget of GBP 400.000 and with a crew of around 20 people.
- ConnexionsEdited into Screen Two: Butterfly Kiss (1997)
- Bandes originalesWalkin' Back To Happiness
Performed by Helen Shapiro
Written by John Schroeder & Mike Hawker
Copyright Dick James Music Ltd.
Courtesy of EMI Records Ltd.
By Arrangement with EMI Special Markets UK
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Détails
- Date de sortie
- Pays d’origine
- Langue
- Aussi connu sous le nom de
- Fjärilskyssar
- Lieux de tournage
- Sociétés de production
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Box-office
- Montant brut aux États-Unis et au Canada
- 87 626 $US
- Montant brut mondial
- 87 626 $US
- Durée1 heure 28 minutes
- Couleur
- Mixage
- Rapport de forme
- 1.85 : 1