Word: gallimard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scenario, based on a real story, seems full of dramatic potential. In 1964, Rene Gallimard (Jeremy Irons), a French diplomat stationed in Beijing, starts a long-term affair with Song Liling (John Lone), an opera singer who enchants him with Eastern modesty and feminine mystery. Several years later Gallimard learns he's been had, so to speak: Song was a spy for the Chinese government...
...abstraction. They've included a few truly bizarre sex scenes, which probably would be better left to the imagination of the audience. As it is, you spend less time thinking about race and sex fantasies than about exactly what these two were doing in bed, and exactly what Gallimard thought they were doing...