Purple Butterfly
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 4 Ratings
- Starring: Tôru Nakamura, Ye Liu, Ziyi Zhang
- Summary: An epic tale of doomed passion, mistaken identity and the terrible personal cost of political resistance. (Palm Pictures)
- Director: Ye Lou
- Genre(s): Drama, History, War
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Positive: 7 out of 12
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Mixed: 4 out of 12
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Negative: 1 out of 12
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A gorgeously shot, ambitious epic.
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80Hectic, lyrical, swooningly romantic and almost unwatchably brutal, Purple Butterfly deploys a modern Asian gangster-movie aesthetic to tell a love story of Shakespearean dimensions.
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58Too often, Purple Butterfly is as impenetrable as Zhang's placid, obdurate beauty.
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38Ye bites off substantially more than he can chew.
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Positive: 2 out of 3
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Mixed: 0 out of 3
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Negative: 1 out of 3
