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  • 2023
  • Cinedigm Entertainment Group
  • 1 h 17 m
  • 2023
  • Cinedigm Entertainment Group
  • 1 h 17 m

Summary After having her identity stolen online, Diana Dent (Annie Parisse) leaves her family and goes on a road trip with her son’s pregnant girlfriend to track down the perpetrators. The mismatched travel companions form an unexpected bond as they concede to the hardships of their own lives, and their hunt for answers becomes a surreal journey...

Directed By: Theodore Schaefer

Written By: Patrick Lawler, Theodore Schaefer

  • 2023
  • Cinedigm Entertainment Group
  • 1 h 17 m
  • 2023
  • Cinedigm Entertainment Group
  • 1 h 17 m

Giving Birth to a Butterfly

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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Summary After having her identity stolen online, Diana Dent (Annie Parisse) leaves her family and goes on a road trip with her son’s pregnant girlfriend to track down the perpetrators. The mismatched travel companions form an unexpected bond as they concede to the hardships of their own lives, and their hunt for answers becomes a surreal journey...

Directed By: Theodore Schaefer

Written By: Patrick Lawler, Theodore Schaefer

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Mixed or Average Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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Mixed or Average Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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May 2, 2023
Schaefer and Lawler pack their rounded vignette of full-frame 16mm film with contradictions, thematic mirrors, and unexplainable phenomena that confounds in its beauty just as easily as it enlightens through its complexity.
By Jared Mobarak FULL REVIEW
80
May 2, 2023
If you like anything David Lynch or any of the surrealist masters, like Luis Bunuel have ever made, then you will like Giving Birth to a Butterfly. It also has a kick of Douglas Sirk/Ranier Fassbinder melodrama which I always love. If these are things you seek out in films, you will be right at home here.
By Lorry Kikta FULL REVIEW
60
May 17, 2023
The forced profundity of the “Butterfly” script undermines the film’s enthralling sense of atmosphere, which drips with melancholy, menace and wonder.
By Beatrice Loayza FULL REVIEW
40
May 18, 2023
More often, the weirdness and affectations seem gratuitous. Even for a movie meant to be offbeat, the rhythm is jarringly askew.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
38
May 15, 2023
The entire enterprise feels like a piece of experimental theater that needs further workshopping before it’s ready for the stage.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Dweck Productions, Hardball Entertainment
Release Date May 1, 2023
Duration 1 h 17 m
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