Completed - ENGLISH, JAPANESE - 107 minutes
Year of production : 2013 Director(s) : Michel COMTE Writer(s) : Anne-Marie MACKAY, Ayako YOSHIDA, Michel COMTE Cast : Christopher LEE, Edorado PONTI, Mariko WORDELL, Michael NYQVIST, Michael WINCOTT, Polina SEMIONOVA
Michel Comte’s dazzling feature debut renders this modern love story as an epic, overt spectacle of romance and loss, and a marvel of formal construction. Based upon Giacomo Puccini’s opera Madame Butterfly, the film introduces Cho-Cho, a child survivor of the cataclysmic bombing of Nagasaki at the end of World War II. The daughter of a geisha, Cho-Cho sets her sights on becoming the wife of a brilliant, young American military pilot based in Japan—and she succeeds. Trained as an astronaut, her new husband departs for a mission. Even though he promises to return, Cho-Cho feels she has been left to manufacture hope in the face of despair.
Country(ies) : GERMANY, USA, ITALY, JAPAN
Sundance Film Festival 2014 New Frontier