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The Butterfly's Dream

1994

Marco Bellocchio

1994·ItalyItalyFranceFranceSwitzerlandSwitzerland
Award tierBronze

Massimo is a young actor who is a spellbinding livewire on stage. A theatre director is moved by his talent and wants to do a play about him, to turn him into a great role to be interpreted by Massimo himself. But the actor's father informs the director of his son's strange decision to renounce conventional language in everyday life, and offers a possible explanation: a disillusionment in love. The mother agrees to compose the script, perhaps to bring her son back to an equality characterised by a verbal language that is understandable to all.

Cast

Thierry Blanc·Simona Cavallari·Nathalie Boutefeu·Roberto Herlitzka

Producers

Marco Bellocchio·Pier Giorgio Bellocchio·Martine Marignac·Livio Negri·Silvia Voser

Languages

ItalyItalian

Major Awards

0 wins · 1 nomination

Nominations (1)

Critics' Awards

Cannes Film Festival (1994)

Un Certain Regard Award

Marco Bellocchio