Butterfly
Our Rating:    L Factor: Lesbian Film Short Take: Flavia falls in love with a younger woman, although she is already married to a man. As a teenager, she was in love with a Chinese revolutionary. Alternate Titles: Hu die |
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| Year: 2004 Duration: 125 min Language: Hong Kong/Chinese MPAA: Not Rated |
Director: Yan Yan Mak Writer: Xue Chen, Yan Yan Mak Starring: Josie Ho, Yuan Tian, Eric Kot, Stephanie Che, Yat Ning Chan, Joman Chiang, Kenneth Tsang, Pauline Yam, Carl Ng, Yuen-Leung Poon, Redbean Lau, Alice Lee |
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Butterfly made its mark in Hong Kong as an art house film that made money as well as garnering award nominations. At almost two hours, it is very slow moving, with experimental use of the camera.
Flavia (Josie Ho) is a teacher with a husband and young daughter. She finds herself falling in love with the younger Yip (Tian Yuan), and the two share many an erotic scene. Flavia’s husband (Eric Kot) tries to win her back, and as Flavia struggles with guilt, he is actually a very sympathetic character.
We also see home movie-style flashbacks to Flavia’s first love, Jin (Stephanie Che), a teenage revolutionary in China (seen on the dvd cover). For me, the timeline was sometimes hard to follow between past, present and a subplot of another set of teenage girls who ditch school.
For those who like slow, smoldering romances, this might be the one for you, but not my cup of tea. (AB)
