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Synopsis: During the Cultural Revolution in China in the mid-1960s, a French diplomat falls in love with a singer in the Beijing Opera. Interwoven with allusions to the Puccini opera "Madama Butterfly", a story of love and betrayal unfolds.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Director(s): David Cronenberg
  1 win.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Metacritic:
43
R
Year:
1993
101 min
3,720 Views


After all, how can you objectively judge

your own values?

I think it's possible

to achieve a little distance.

Do you?

Be a gentleman, will you,

and light my cigarette?

The Oriental woman

has always held a certain fascination...

...for you Caucasian men.

Is that not true?

Yes.

But that fascination is imperialist.

Or so you tell me.

Yes.

It is always imperialist.

But sometimes...

Sometimes it is also mutual.

This is my home.

Come another time...

...and we will continue

the process of education.

Oh...

What's...?

What are you doing?

Oh, I had the most amazing dream.

I'm surprised

you had the time to dream at all.

When did you get in last night, anyway?

Oh, I went to the, uh, Koenig's.

You know what's it like

when they get in a new shipment of beer.

I shan't go back there in a hurry.

Um...

Song Liling?

That is my father.

It was very good

that he did not live to see the revolution.

They would, no doubt,

have made him kneel on broken glass.

Not that he didn't deserve

such a punishment.

But he was my father.

I would have hated to see it happen.

There is an element of danger

to your presence.

You must know that.

It doesn't concern me.

It doesn't concern me either.

Well, perhaps.

I am slightly afraid of scandal.

What are we doing that's scandalous?

I'm entertaining you in my parlor.

Where I come from

that would hardly be construed as...

You come from France.

France is a country

living in the modern era.

Perhaps even ahead of it.

China is a nation...

...whose soul is firmly rooted

What I do,

even pouring the tea for you now...

...it has implications.

Please, go.

Please.

Monsieur Gallimard.

I never invited a man to my home before.

The forwardness of my actions

makes my skin burn.

Please, go now.

If I go now...

...what assurance will you have

that I'll ever return?

You are cruel.

Ren?

Shall we skip the Frisches' party?

No, you mistake the whole situation.

You're not going to bore me

with political talk.

It's most important

that you don't worry about it.

- No, no.

- Me, worry?

The Chinese masses

have accepted Communism...

...but they're used

to following their warlords.

No, it would never work.

Don't waste your time

even thinking about Frau Baden.

That woman's built like

the Forbidden City.

Everyone can look,

but no one gets inside.

I'm sorry, am I disturbing something?

Listen.

We have to say,

we're not at all pleased...

...with the way you've been sending back

our expenses for further documentation.

Oh.

Well, I'm sorry to hear that.

Because I found

two more questionable items tonight.

Is there something

you're trying to prove?

It's not a case of trying to prove anything,

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David Henry Hwang

David Henry Hwang (simplified Chinese: 黄哲伦; traditional Chinese: 黃哲倫; pinyin: Huáng Zhélún; born August 11, 1957) is an American playwright, librettist, screenwriter, and theater professor. more…

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