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  • 1996
  • Not Rated
  • Cinépix Film Properties (CFP)
  • 1 h 28 m
  • 1996
  • Not Rated
  • Cinépix Film Properties (CFP)
  • 1 h 28 m
Butterfly Kiss

Summary Eunice wanders the English countryside looking for Judith. Miriam takes pity on Eunice and decides to assist in her search. But when Eunice's sociopathic tendencies lead to bloodshed, Miriam tries to help her find her soul too, all the while slowly losing her own.

Directed By: Michael Winterbottom

Written By: Frank Cottrell Boyce, Michael Winterbottom

  • 1996
  • Not Rated
  • Cinépix Film Properties (CFP)
  • 1 h 28 m
  • 1996
  • Not Rated
  • Cinépix Film Properties (CFP)
  • 1 h 28 m

Butterfly Kiss

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 16 Critic Reviews
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Summary Eunice wanders the English countryside looking for Judith. Miriam takes pity on Eunice and decides to assist in her search. But when Eunice's sociopathic tendencies lead to bloodshed, Miriam tries to help her find her soul too, all the while slowly losing her own.

Directed By: Michael Winterbottom

Written By: Frank Cottrell Boyce, Michael Winterbottom

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 16 Critic Reviews
61
69% Positive
11 Reviews
6% Mixed
1 Review
25% Negative
4 Reviews

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 16 Critic Reviews
61
69% Positive
11 Reviews
6% Mixed
1 Review
25% Negative
4 Reviews

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90
From its opening shots, Butterfly Kiss exudes a confidence and distinctive feel that promises something rather special. Unlike its characters, the pic knows where it's going.
By Derek Elley FULL REVIEW
83
The final effect is less haunting than was probably intended, but Butterfly Kiss is worth a look.
By Keith Phipps FULL REVIEW
80
The filmmakers set themselves to the daunting task of involving us in two people they couldn't remotely ask us to like or care about. But Plummer and Reeves create two profoundly damaged and dangerous people with such wit, insight and comprehension that if you're so disposed you can actually see in them your own frustrations, anger and capacity for denial and easy rationalization.
By Kevin Thomas FULL REVIEW
70
Where most movies portraying sociopathic behavior make some attempt at psychological explanation, Butterfly Kiss offers no background to Eunice's craziness. As she throws herself furiously through a bleak highway landscape of anonymous gas stations and convenience stores, she appears to be a self-created avenging demon radiating a powerful but loopy charisma.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
63
Shows promise, but needs more effort, and definitely doesn't play well with others. [7 Jun 1996, p.C2]
By Rick Groen FULL REVIEW
38
As titillating novelty turns into tired cliche, the dyke-psycho-killer genre may soon burn itself out, but in the meantime, we have the grim Brit art-film variation on the gruesome genre, Butterfly Kiss.
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10
This smoothly odious piece of work, written by Frank Cottrell Boyce and directed by Michael Winterbottom, posits the self-consciously repellent Plummer as a sort of Valerie Solanas-inflected version of the Florida serial killer Aileen Wournos. [7 May 1996]
By J. Hoberman FULL REVIEW

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Production Company British Screen Productions, Dan Films, Merseyside Film Production Fund
Release Date Apr 26, 1996
Duration 1 h 28 m
Rating Not Rated
Genres
Tagline A story of love and redemption.
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Awards

Berlin International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
European Film Awards
• 1 Nomination
Stockholm Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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