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DIRECTOR: DAVID CRONENBERG...
DIRECTOR: DAVID CRONENBERG...
...from yang. But it's easy to tell hit from miss. Farewell My Concubine, Chen Kaige's Chinese film that won a top prize at Cannes this year before being briefly suppressed by the Chinese government, is a gorgeous, galvanizing epic with starmaking turns. M. Butterfly, the David Cronenberg film of David Henry Hwang's Broadway play, fumbles its romantic and political metaphors and loses the game...
...give real life to the characters, but the close-ups defeat them. So do some unlikely plot points: the defendant and his accuser are put alone to undress and wrestle in a police wagon; the diplomat daubs himself as Madama Butterfly before a rapt audience -- of French convicts! Cronenberg is unlikely to find other spectators as gullible as they...
...films. Ang Lee's The Wedding Banquet -- an ingratiating comedy-drama about a gay Taiwanese man in New York City who gets married to please his parents -- has grossed $1 million in its first month of specialized release. This week the Toronto Film Festival opens with M. Butterfly, David Cronenberg's film of the David Henry Hwang play about a tryst between a French diplomat (Jeremy Irons) and a Chinese man (John Lone) whom he believes to be a woman; it opens commercially Oct. 1. This Wednesday, Wayne Wang's lovely The Joy Luck Club, a fourfold Terms of Endearment...