Butterfly Kiss

Name: Butterfly Kiss
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Comedy
Released: April 26, 1996
Duration: 88 min
Rating: 61

1996

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Cinépix Film Properties (CFP) | Release Date: April 26, 1996

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.

Director: Michael Winterbottom

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller, Comedy

Runtime: 88 min

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Derek Elley

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. Read full review

Edward Guthmann

Plummer gives her strangest, most uninhibited screen performance to date. Playing Eunice, a wildly psychotic killer with a working-class British accent and a mysterious past, Plummer draws a streak of white-hot rage across the screen. Read full review

Kevin Thomas

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. Read full review

Jonathan Rosenbaum

If you're sick of kinky killers and English rip-offs of American genre movies, this terminally bleak and violent 1995 road movie may irritate the hell out of you--unless you're as impressed as I was by Amanda Plummer's performance. Read full review

Rick Groen

Shows promise, but needs more effort, and definitely doesn't play well with others. [7 Jun 1996, p.C2]

Barry Walters

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. Read full review

J. Hoberman

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]

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