Puccini - Madame Butterfly / Huang, Troxell
by Fr?d?ric Mitterrand
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Actor: Jing Ma Fan, Ning Liang, Richard Cowan (II), Richard Troxell, Ying HuangDirector: Fr?d?ric Mitterrand
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: Italian (Original Language); Chinese (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 134 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-02-26
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Sony Pictures
Movie Reviews of Puccini - Madame Butterfly / Huang, Troxell
Movie Review: The lead singer looks Chinese not Japanese
Summary: 3 Stars
Puccini's opera may be the origin of the "Ugly American"?
The music sounds like familiar Italian opera in style
and some of the songs have had a lot of play in the last century.
The stagging and casting except for the lead singer are very good,
but the poor lead singer just looks very Chinese ( more than most western
singers look western?).
The levitating Japanese priest uncle was very strange for me:
I don't remember that being part of the opera. The Japanese could have shown this opera to get up spirit before a battle in WWII?
Since the history of the British Empire suggests that they were more involved in such double dealings as this,
why did Puccini choose an American in Japan?
Summary of Puccini - Madame Butterfly / Huang, Troxell
Madame Butterfly is the heartwrenching story of a beautiful young geisha who sacrifices her family, her religion and, ultimately, her life for her American husband. Butterfly is the young bride of Lieutenant Pinkerton, who buys Butterfly's love while stationed in Japan and with no intention of ever taking her home to America. Martin Scorsese presents this award-winning film based on the popular opera. 133 minutes. Cast: Ying Huang: Cio-Cio-San
Richard Troxell: Pinkerton
Ning Liang: Suzuki
Richard Cowan: Sharpless
Jing Ma Fan: Goro
Christopheren N?mura: Prince Yamadori
Constance Hauman: Kate Pinkerton
Like the finest of film scores with its fluid beauty and succession of intensely romantic tunes, Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly has a surprisingly cinematic feel. In 1995 director Frederic Mitterand exploited this quality of the story, exposing a young woman's disillusionment against a backdrop of cultural chasms. Shot on location, with Tunisia doubling convincingly as a turn-of-the-century Nagasaki, this Butterfly shines with fragile beauty. The house becomes a brilliantly used set, at once airy and full of the scent of flowers and at the same time a cage for the trapped woman. Archive footage of bygone Nagasaki is used skillfully to underline the distance between the 15-year-old bride and Pinkerton.
Purists may prefer a more traditionally robust, stage-bound Butterfly, but you'd be hard-pressed to find a more visually heartbreaking interpretation. Chinese soprano Ying Huang doesn't rock the rafters with her vocal power; hers is a tender, delicately observed performance. Tenor Richard Troxell's self-seeking Pinkerton is well sung. Overall, this is a haunting cinematic treatment of an enduringly popular opera. --Piers Ford
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