Butterfly Kiss

Eunice wanders along the highway, where she walks into gas stations, asking female attendants if they are Judith and getting angry when they say they aren’t. One attendant Miriam calms Eunice down and takes her back home to stay. There Eunice sexually forces herself on the weak-willed Miriam. The next morning Eunice leaves and Miriam runs after her. But as she follows Eunice, Miriam realizes that she is leaving a trail of dead bodies wherever she goes. Joining her on a chaotic cross-country journey, Miriam attempts to redeem the evil inside Eunice.
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Direction: Michael Winterbottom
Script: Frank Cottrell Boyce (based on an idea by Frank Cottrell Boyce, Michael Winterbottom)
Cinematography: Seamus McGarvey
Editing: Trevor Waite
Music: Trevor Waite
Actors: Amanda Plummer, Saskia Reeves, Kathy Jamieson, Des McAleer, Lisa Jane Riley, Freda Bowie, Paula Tilbrook, Fine Time Fontayne, Elizabeth McGrath, Joanne Cook, Ricky Tomlinson, Katy Murphy
Production: Dan Films Ltd., British Screen, The Merseyside Film Production Fund 1994
Producers: Julie Baines
Costumes: Rachael Fleming
Format: 35mm
Color: Colour-B&W
Production Country: UΚ
Production Year: 1994
Duration: 88’

Michael Winterbottom

A talented and intelligent British filmmaker of intense and often introspective relationship dramas, Michael Winterbottom has displayed a wide array of diverse film projects that ranged from neo-noir thrillers and political docudramas to gritty family melodramas and satirical comedies. After getting his start with Thames Television, Winterbottom made his feature debut with the lesbian-centric noir Butterfly Kiss (1995) before his ambitious take on Thomas Hardy’s novel, Jude (1996). He earned considerable international acclaim for his searing war drama, Welcome to Sarajevo (1997), which unflinchingly depicted the horror of the brutal war in Yugoslavia. After the interesting, but little-seen revisionist Western, The Claim (2000), Winterbottom offered a restless kaleidoscope of images accompanied by a stellar soundtrack for 24 Hour Party People (2002), which once again helped boost his international acclaim. By the time he directed Casey Affleck in The Killer Inside Me (2010), Winterbottom was considered to be one of the more artistically daring directors working in contemporary cinema.

Filmography

1995 Butterfly Kiss
1996 Jude
1998 I Want You
1999 Wonderland
2000 The Claim
2002 24 Hour Party People
2004 9 Songs
2006 The Road to Guantanamo
2008 A Summer in Genoa
2010 The Killer Inside Me
2012 Everyday
2014 The Trip to Italy
2015 The Emperor's New Clothes
2018 The Wedding Guest
2020 The Trip to Greece
2023 Shoshana