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
Brand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: Italian (Original Language); Chinese (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, 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: Huang and Troxell create a magical "Madame Butterfly"
Summary: 5 Stars
Martin Scorcese's production of "Madame Butterfly" is truly stunning. Once I saw it I had to own it. It is a DVD that you will want to watch over and over. Huang and Troxell are perfect for their parts both visually and vocally. They both turn in very believable performances. Both their acting and vocal renditions leave little more to be desired. The setting and background are lavishly colorful.
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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