Butterfly Kiss

Butterfly Kiss

1995 · 88 min · EN · 6.5 (28 votes)
Dir. Michael Winterbottom · Starring Amanda Plummer, Saskia Reeves, Kathy Jamieson, Des McAleer, Lisa Riley, Freda Dowie · Music John Harle

A story of love and redemption.

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Deeply mentally unbalanced drifter Eunice roams grim northern Britain committing psychosexual serial murders of both men and women while ostensibly searching for an unknown woman named Judith. She spares the life of lonely but kind-hearted gas station cashier Miriam, who abandons her dismal life to follow her damaged new lover. While attempting to hide the evidence of her multiple crimes, Miriam tries to understand Eunice's bizarre quest.

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A raw, unsettling descent into obsession and fractured desire. This film feels like a cold, northern wind carrying whispers of madness and a desperate, dangerous love. It’s a bleak, intimate, and deeply disturbing character study.

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