A French diplomat named Rene Gallimard is living and working in the China at the time of the Vietnam war. He goes to see the famous Chinese opera Madam Butterfly and instantly falls in love with the woman playing the lead roll. They start an Affair but the woman Song Liling is so modest that she won't let Rene see her naked. The affair is short lived when the Butterfly as he calls her and their new born baby are taken away by the Communists, and Rene is sent back to France and his wife Divorces him. Several years later Song shows up again and tricks him into stealing government documents so as she says they can get their child back. Than some of the weirdest things ever filmed takes place, but the weirdest part is that it is all true, or mostly true some of it we will never know for sure. The performances are wonderful particularly by Jeremy Irons as Rene. He plays him perfectly. But the real best part of the film is David Cronenbergs direction which is some of the best ever. A wonderful movie,
Review of M. Butterfly
