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Xue Chen (story)
Yan Yan Mak (writer)
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2 December 2004 (Hong Kong) more
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Flavia is a thirtysomething married teacher. She has suppressed the memory of her adolescent lesbian... more | add synopsis
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1 win & 4 nominations more
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Butterfly without effect more (10 total)
Cast
(Credited cast) | Josie Ho | ... | Flavia |
| Yuan Tian | ... | Yip |
| Eric Kot | ... | Ming (Flavia's Husband) |
| Stephanie Che | ... | Jin |
| Yat Ning Chan | ... | Young Flavia (as Isabel Chan) |
| Joman Chiang | ... | Young Jin |
 | Kenneth Tsang | ... | Flavia's dad |
| Pauline Yam | ... | Rosa |
| Carl Ng | ... | Carl (Man in Macau bar) |
| Yuen-Leung Poon | ... | Man in coffee shop |
| Redbean Lau | ... | Flavia's mum |
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 | Alice Lee | ... | Pauline |
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Butterfly (International: English title)
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124 min | Argentina:125 min (Mar del Plata Film Festival)
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Flavia:
I don't know why I always fell for girls. I can't even help my students. I always give up when I'm half way through doing something. If I go on like this, I'll hurt a lot of people.
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Why do you blame yourself for everything? You've tried your best. That's good enough. No one will blame you.
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Almost every movie about gay or lesbian themes seem to have the same problem, they think they are saying something new and definitive about the topic, but really they repeating the same old trash.
According the cover of the DVD, butterfly was a bit of a shock horror scandal movie in Hong Kong. However there is little new to be said here. Flavia is a respectable married school teacher with a child. But when she was a school student she had a lesbian relationship.
She meets a girl in a supermarket who awakens her suppressed desires.
Using some interesting camera techniques to portray different times and feelings this makes this served to annoy me more than enlighten me (I think it is a Hong Kong, the camera is used to enforce a feeling or moment).
What happens in this movie is both beautifully told, but overly pedestrian. It could have been told in a much short way and really all that was being said was that if you are a lesbian you are a lesbian.
Still it is nice movie that might be good to watch on a lazy Sunday afternoon.