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1995 Certificate PG
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Starring Ying Huang, Richard Troxell, Ning Liang, Richard Cowan
Director Frédéric Mitterrand
Genres Music/Musical, World Cinema

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Madame Butterfly

Frederic Mitterand's filmic version of the famous Puccini opera

Starring Ying Huang, Richard Troxell, Ning Liang, Richard Cowan
Director Frédéric Mitterrand
Studio COLUMBIA TRI-STAR HOME VIDEO
Run time DVD: 2 hrs 8 mins
Certificate Certificate PG
Genres Music/Musical, World Cinema
Language DVD: Italian
Released DVD: 04 Mar 2002
Production year: 1995
Format DVD

  • Critics' reviews (6) of Madame Butterfly

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  • 1 stars out of 5

    Madame Butterfly started life as a novel in the late 1890s and became a play in 1900, but is now best known as an opera by Puccini. Alas, Paramount came a cropper with this film version, an updated presentation told as straight melodrama. Directed at a snail's pace by Marion Gering, with Cary Grant not at his best as Lieutenant Pinkerton, it's a turgid bore. Sylvia Sidney has the perfect face and sad soulful eyes for Butterfly, the Japanese girl whose heart is broken by Pinkerton's desertion. In the end, though, it's just not enough.

    • Radio Times
    • Posted 29 Jan 2006

  • "...A visual combination of authentic Japanese realism and picturesque, dream-like cinematography that matches the lushness of Puccini's music..." -- 3 out of 4 stars

    • USA Today
    • Posted 29 Jan 2006

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  • 3 out of 3 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    Madame Butterfly 1995 Beautifique

    Beautiful, emotional, visual.

    Butterfly's voice will haunt you.

    The fact that the antagonist CARES about the consequences and suffers with her at the end also makes this a unique tragedy.

    If you've never liked opera, this will broaden your horizons. There are opera singers that do look the part for a change and don't overwhelm the music with shaky voices so much that the distortion sounds unbeautiful.

    This is a masterpiece of a film.

    I have never seen but part of it on stage, flipping channels. I think the piece stands apart from others and is highly memorable. Even my husband cried with me! He has never seen opera, save for catching some Die Fleidermaus on tv with me once a couple years ago. It has a profound effect on the viewer. You'll never underestimate opera again

      • Jessica Lohse from Leicester, England
      • Posted 28 Mar 2006 10:42

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  • 3 out of 3 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    Madame Butterfly 1995 Beautifique

    Beautiful, emotional, visual.

    Butterfly's voice will haunt you.

    The fact that the antagonist CARES about the consequences and suffers with her at the end also makes this a unique tragedy.

    If you've never liked opera, this will broaden your horizons. There are opera singers that do look the part for a change and don't overwhelm the music with shaky voices so much that the distortion sounds unbeautiful.

    This is a masterpiece of a film.

    I have never seen but part of it on stage, flipping channels. I think the piece stands apart from others and is highly memorable. Even my husband cried with me! He has never seen opera, save for catching some Die Fleidermaus on tv with me once a couple years ago. It has a profound effect on the viewer. You'll never underestimate opera again

      • Jessica Lohse from Leicester, England
      • Posted 28 Mar 2006 10:42

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