Reviews for Purple Butterfly

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6.5 / 10 2h 7min

Ding Hui is a member of Purple Butterfly, a powerful resistance group in Japanese occupied Shanghai. An unexpected encounter reunites her with Itami, an ex-lover and officer with a secret police unit tasked with dismantling Purple Butterfly.

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Review by user16st91aunq

Modern spin on a Chinese tragedy

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Review by user1561i4ap1kt

Excellent film, Zhang Ziyi's best work

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Review by user404rqk70sjq

A masterful piece of film-making, better than any of the Academy award nominees

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Review by user90whmrrhio

'Difficult' but extremely rewarding

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Review by user918nuqw2lmj

Purple Butterfly-a look at Neo-Realism today

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Review by CrimsonCobra

War-time intrigue minus the intrigue.

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Review by user701efrzp51a

disappointing, dismal and confusing

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Review by user173q993sfz5

Slow pace and incoherent historical drama

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Review by user656083gry2z

Interesting...worth seeing for the curios

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Review by user573oy6mgr9t

Purple Butterfly has a chaotic editing style and claustrophobic cinematography.

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Review by SunlitSeahorse

A note, because so few people seem to have seen this movie

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Review by user698psze3zpj

Rather muddled history to add flesh to an interesting emotional quandary.

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Review by user421iqoqzoun

A Chinese Take On The Old-Fashioned War Time Spy Romance

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Review by user569r675r4jc

Couldn't keep my mind wandering away

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